From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git cherry-pick --continue? Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:36:52 -0800 Message-ID: <7vfx5733x7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20100210210419.GA7728@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20100210212408.GB7728@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v63644uoq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vbpfw3f6t.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100211193248.GA27072@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sverre Rabbelier , Git List To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 11 21:37:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nffmi-0007pF-7l for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:37:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756876Ab0BKUhF (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:37:05 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:33121 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756799Ab0BKUhE (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:37:04 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B91986D1; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:37:03 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= sasl; bh=F88FOeGujRKSo7zxQ6T1urN34fo=; b=dXo0kx+MVzoq2RMhmLyJUd+ oWxjvn3sots136NbtybpXcB+LjalclQOcB9DoJ6M9JECqLwi18rYtptvLMcBdxA/ vaRdKho6yQORftVC2Lw1vKcIeLCIszGYqBmomsOQiN+BQSlWRoMVZ1f4pB20+vPa IXj2K8eGgQwt7BKg9oX4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q= dns; s=sasl; b=FYP9f/QCYwGdTty54gk5QOLKeM5jEtcUhVGjOt4CClPJxufck I9G0T4cQRXve/vy5uDiUIRL/8Wcmb6onj6Yq9I2l2ouufi3xkPQafYuFXpwQ/+TT 51bZpBKGntat7TWB8zGFeQE31VtLWk5Kp7rLbtFGf3jV2JCnbgQgzv5V64= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459BD986D0; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:37:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 46D72986C6; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:36:54 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 3454357A-174D-11DF-8613-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: >> Having said all I did in the previous message, I think "am --continue" >> would be a good addition. > > OK. I agree with your philosophical ramblings in the previous message, > but I also think there is some value in making it simple for the user to > remember. Certainly I am in agreement and that is why I think "am --continue" is a good thing. > Do you just want to pick up my patch from earlier in the thread, or do > you have further comments? The only thing I could think to change would > be that we may not want to even bother advertising --continue in the > usage message (conversely, we could go a step further and actually > advertise it in the manpage). I would say our eventual goal should be to make "--continue" the primary word the end users would see. It would bring us closer to that goal to start advertising --continue early.