From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git-bisect feature suggestion: "git-bisect diff" Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:03:44 -0800 Message-ID: <7vprxiyxfj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20071207093439.GA21896@elte.hu> <7v63za4yic.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwsrq3iox.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071207213414.GA11688@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20071207213541.GA11723@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vtzmuyyc3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071207215514.GA11784@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 07 23:06:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0lJN-00056Z-8S for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:04:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755234AbXLGWEW (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:04:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754432AbXLGWEV (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:04:21 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:39355 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752457AbXLGWEV (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:04:21 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626E43F69; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:04:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8068E3F68; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:04:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20071207215514.GA11784@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:55:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:44:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Well, I think "git view" should not be just "predefined alias that the >> user can override wholesale", which is what you currently have. I think >> it can just be an example in "git config" manpage (i.e. "If you want to, >> you can alias 'view' to 'gitk' or 'gitview'") and I do not think we need >> core-side support for that. > > Sure, but regular aliases already do that. The point of making it a > "builtin" alias is that we can depend on it being there. But who is > depending? Nobody is depending. And I think the reason nobody depends on it is because there is no compelling reason to. Perhaps the behaviour is not useful enough. It surely is the case for "bisect view".