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From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Joel Holdsworth <jholdsworth@nvidia.com>,
	Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tzadik Vanderhoof <tzadik.vanderhoof@gmail.com>,
	Dorgon Chang <dorgonman@hotmail.com>,
	Joachim Kuebart <joachim.kuebart@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Levin <dendy.ua@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Oakley <andrew@adoakley.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] git-p4: remove "delete" verb
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:32:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE5ih78dLwqpHChkJ6JWmFYZh58Yca8tWke9Oa8JDzzOGi78AQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh7b3vzgp.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 19:38, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Joel Holdsworth <jholdsworth@nvidia.com> writes:
>
> > The git-p4 "delete" verb is described as "A tool to debug the output of
> > p4 -G". However, the implementation provided is of no useful benefit to
> > either users or developers.
>
> The same comment as 2/2 applies here, too.  This time, however, I
> think it would be much easier to give a proper analysis of what it
> is designed to do and what it does, to convince readers why it is
> too trivial to be worth having the code (compared to the PATCH 2/2).
>
> Also, this is not about the "delete" verb, but the "debug" verb, no?

I have never used the P4Debug subcommand for debugging git-p4, and I'm
not sure what I would use it for. Removing it seems sensible.

As noted by Junio, s/delete/debug/.

Luke

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-21 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-17 14:05 [PATCH v2 0/2] git-p4: remove "debug" and "rollback" verbs Joel Holdsworth
2021-12-17 14:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] git-p4: remove "delete" verb Joel Holdsworth
2021-12-20 19:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-21 10:32     ` Luke Diamand [this message]
2021-12-17 14:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] git-p4: remove "rollback" verb Joel Holdsworth
2021-12-20 19:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-12-20 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] git-p4: remove "debug" and "rollback" verbs Johannes Schindelin

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