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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: "Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs>
Cc: Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] read-tree: abort if no trees are given
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:29:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8A168F.1030502@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100910120604.50aa1e94@jk.gs>

Am 9/10/2010 12:06, schrieb Jan Krüger:
> Currently, read-tree silently accepts an invocation without any
> tree-ishs given and simply clobbers the index in that case. This
> contradicts the usage synopsis and it's also probably not what anyone
> would want to happen. So, instead, abort with a fatal error.

See

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/135280/focus=135407

and the discussion that ensued; perhaps intersting is

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/135280/focus=135462

(where Junio suggest to make this a warning for now).

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-10 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10 10:06 [PATCH] read-tree: abort if no trees are given Jan Krüger
2010-09-10 11:29 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-09-10 13:28   ` [PATCH] read-tree: deprecate syntax without tree-ish args Jan Krüger
2010-09-10 13:53     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-10 15:36     ` Junio C Hamano

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