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From: William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>
To: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add -n/--no-prompt option to mergetool
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:32:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49024CF1.5040406@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081023064455.GA10675@hashpling.org>

Charles Bailey wrote:
> 
> After more thoughts, I'm somewhat in favour of dropping the short
> switch altogether. As it just saves a single keypress per merge I
> imagine that most mergetool users, once they discover this new
> feature and decide that they want to use it, will prefer to use a user
> config option to switch it on. The command line option then becomes
> something that you would only need to use to override your normal
> default and something on which to hang the option description in the
> man page. 

If the short option is dropped, the config option should
probably associated with mergetool.<tool>.interactive rather
than mergetool.interactive.  (s/interactive/whatever)


-- 
William Pursell

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 10:13 [PATCH 1/3] Fix some tab/space inconsistencies in git-mergetool.sh Charles Bailey
2008-10-21 10:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add -n/--no-prompt option to mergetool Charles Bailey
2008-10-21 10:13   ` [PATCH 3/3] Add -k/--keep-going " Charles Bailey
2008-10-21 11:12     ` Jeff King
2008-10-21 11:49   ` [PATCH 2/3] Add -n/--no-prompt " Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-21 12:26     ` Charles Bailey
2008-10-22 21:17       ` Charles Bailey
2008-10-22 23:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-23  6:44           ` Charles Bailey
2008-10-24 22:32             ` William Pursell [this message]
2008-10-24 22:55               ` Charles Bailey
2008-10-25 10:11                 ` William Pursell
2008-11-13 12:28                   ` Charles Bailey

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