From: William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] feature request: git-mergetool --force
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:44:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FA2E9F.3090305@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081018154824.GA20185@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:23:05AM +0100, William Pursell wrote:
>
>> I occasionally use commands like 'cp $REMOTE $MERGED' with
>> mergetool, and would prefer to not be prompted to start
>> the tool on each file. A --force option would be handy.
>
> I think it is reasonable to want to skip this prompt, but I am not sure
> "--force" is the right name for such an option. Usually we reserve
> --force for "the tool is trying to prevent something destructive or
> unusual, and the user wants to override it".
>
> Something like --no-prompt makes more sense to me, though probably
> something a little easier to type would be nice (or maybe alias "-n").
Actually, perhaps an "interactive=no" configuration setting,
which might imply trustExitCode = true.
--
William Pursell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-18 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-17 23:23 [PATCH] feature request: git-mergetool --force William Pursell
2008-10-18 15:48 ` Jeff King
2008-10-18 18:44 ` William Pursell [this message]
2008-10-18 20:54 ` Jeff King
2008-10-18 23:16 ` Charles Bailey
2008-10-19 11:47 ` Jeff King
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