From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git: add --no-replace option to disable replacing
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:32:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD2CD6A.2020509@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091011153227.8487.81803.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Christian Couder schrieb:
> So there is no way to disable it for some commands, which is annoying
> when we want to get information about a commit that has been replaced.
>
> For example:
>
> $ git cat-file -p N
>
> would output information about the replacement commit if commit N is
> replaced.
>
> With the "--no-replace" option that this patch adds it is possible to
> get information about the original commit using:
>
> $ git --no-replace cat-file -p N
I think it makes sense. But given the exotic nature of this option, I'd
prefer a more specific name, e.g., --no-replace-objects.
-- Hannes
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2009-10-11 15:32 [RFC/PATCH] git: add --no-replace option to disable replacing Christian Couder
2009-10-12 6:32 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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