From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/11] replace: bypass the type check if -f option is used
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:56:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD33DdRjpZnQmPkexpGsKOm7=zouuteMpioGRJ+6LyjVNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4na0mi51.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
>
>> If -f option, which means '--force', is used, we can allow an object
>> to be replaced with one of a different type, as the user should know
>> what (s)he is doing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
>> ---
>
> This does not matter in a larger picture, but between 1/11 and this
> patch, there is a window where an operation that has been useful in
> some workflows becomes unavailable to the user.
>
> For future reference, it would be better to do this as a part of
> 1/11, to make sure that there always is an escape hatch available to
> the users.
Ok, I will squash patchs 6/11, 7/11 and 8/11 with 1/11, 2/11 and 3/11
respectively.
Thanks,
Christian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-05 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-03 7:10 [PATCH v4 00/11] Check replacement object type and minor updates Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] replace: forbid replacing an object with one of a different type Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] Documentation/replace: state that objects must be of the same type Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] t6050-replace: test that objects are " Christian Couder
2013-09-04 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 19:13 ` Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] t6050-replace: add test to clean up all the replace refs Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] Documentation/replace: add Creating Replacement Objects section Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] replace: bypass the type check if -f option is used Christian Couder
2013-09-04 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 12:56 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] Documentation/replace: tell that -f option bypasses the type check Christian Couder
2013-09-04 20:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-04 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] t6050-replace: check " Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] replace: allow long option names Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] Documentation/replace: list " Christian Couder
2013-09-04 20:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-05 13:03 ` Christian Couder
2013-09-03 7:10 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] t6050-replace: use some " Christian Couder
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