From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Keith Cascio <keith@CS.UCLA.EDU>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the diff option --no-defaults
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:52:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4owok0bh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20090416094154.GA30479@coredump.intra.peff.net
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:25:08AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> > This feels very hack-ish to me, but perhaps this is a case of "perfect
>> > is the enemy of the good".
>>
>> I have a strong feeling that none of our diff/rev options can sanely take
>> a parameter looking like "--defaults" or "--no-defaults".
>>
>> But I do not have the time to audit the options. Maybe you have?
>
> Right now, I think we are safe. A few options like "--default" do take a
> separated string argument, but saying "--default --no-defaults" seems a
> little crazy to me (besides being confusing because they are talking
> about two totally unrelated defaults).
Maybe you guys have already considered and discarded this as too hacky,
but isn't it the easiest to explain and code to declare --no-defaults is
acceptable only at the beginning?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-16 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1233598855-1088-1-git-send-email-keith@cs.ucla.edu>
2009-02-02 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Introduce config variable "diff.primer" Keith Cascio
2009-02-02 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Test functionality of new " Keith Cascio
2009-02-02 20:45 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Introduce " Keith Cascio
2009-02-02 21:03 ` Keith Cascio
2009-02-03 7:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " Jeff King
2009-02-03 17:55 ` Keith Cascio
2009-02-04 5:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-04 6:36 ` Keith Cascio
2009-02-06 16:54 ` Jeff King
2009-02-06 16:19 ` Jeff King
2009-02-07 21:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-09 17:24 ` Keith Cascio
2009-02-13 22:22 ` Jeff King
2009-02-14 6:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-14 6:15 ` Jeff King
2009-02-14 6:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-14 15:17 ` Jeff King
2009-02-15 23:26 ` Keith Cascio
2009-02-15 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-17 7:24 ` diff.defaultOptions implementation design [was diff.primer] Keith Cascio
2009-02-17 19:56 ` Jeff King
2009-03-17 16:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Introduce config variable "diff.defaultOptions" Keith Cascio
2009-03-20 7:01 ` Jeff King
2009-03-20 17:11 ` Keith Cascio
2009-03-20 19:49 ` Jeff King
2009-03-21 2:00 ` [PATCH/RFC v3] Introduce config variable "diff.defaultoptions" Keith Cascio
2009-03-21 3:15 ` [PATCH] Allow setting default diff options via diff.defaultOptions Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-03 0:04 ` Keith Cascio
2009-04-09 8:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-09 8:49 ` Jeff King
2009-04-09 10:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-10 8:01 ` Jeff King
2009-04-13 22:37 ` [PATCH] Add the diff option --no-defaults Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-16 8:34 ` Jeff King
2009-04-16 9:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-16 9:41 ` Jeff King
2009-04-16 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-04-16 17:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-17 11:54 ` Jeff King
2009-04-17 13:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-18 16:41 ` Keith Cascio
2009-04-18 17:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-18 20:32 ` Keith Cascio
2009-04-18 21:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-09 16:29 ` [PATCH] Allow setting default diff options via diff.defaultOptions Keith Cascio
2009-04-09 0:44 ` Keith Cascio
2009-04-09 8:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-09 8:31 ` Jeff King
2009-02-03 18:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Introduce config variable "diff.primer" Jakub Narebski
2009-02-03 19:13 ` Keith Cascio
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