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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] status: do not depend on flaky reflog messages
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:43:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALkWK0nho2SgK3sBibqvPJLhEQw=cSmX3rdQ5LiQTEQkMhRnoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vobb7lmpi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The first line from status in the middle of
> a rebase is secondary.  End-user initiated "checkout" to detach is
> the primary thing.
>
>> 3. The problem is not unique to rebase at all; yet you have
>> special-cased it.  If this isn't a band-aid, what is?
>
> It is an illustration for approach (2) in the other message.
>
> In the longer term, you would want richer status output for various
> detached state, and that "how about this" patch shows where new code
> to support other cases should be added.

Fine.  If that is what you want, we'll have to special-case every
known script-in-progress to stop writing the usual "HEAD detached
from" message.  That'll leave out only the "end-user cases", where you
argue that the message is helpful.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-15 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-13 13:32 [PATCH 0/6] Fix git checkout - with rebase Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 13:32 ` [PATCH 1/6] t/checkout-last: checkout - doesn't work after rebase Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 17:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-13 18:30     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 20:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-13 13:32 ` [PATCH 2/6] rebase: prepare to write reflog message for checkout Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 17:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-13 18:05     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 13:32 ` [PATCH 3/6] rebase -i: " Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 17:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-13 13:32 ` [PATCH 4/6] wt-status: remove unused field in grab_1st_switch_cbdata Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 17:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-13 13:32 ` [PATCH 5/6] status: do not depend on flaky reflog messages Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 18:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-13 18:15     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 18:48     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 21:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-14  6:27         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-14 13:52           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-14 14:01             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-14 14:52               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-14 15:08                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-14 16:31                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-14 21:36                     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-14 22:16                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-14 22:36                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-14 23:07                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-15  8:02                           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-15  9:58                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-15 12:13                               ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2013-06-15  8:44                         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-15  9:51                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-15 12:08                             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-16  5:57                               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-16  6:07                                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-15 10:26                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-13 13:32 ` [PATCH 6/6] checkout: respect GIT_REFLOG_ACTION Ramkumar Ramachandra

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