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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git discussion list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git diff annoyance / feature request
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:08:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo4o148rq9.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E56C58E.4080905@panasas.com>

Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> writes:
>> Personally, I would have to say that the source wouldn't be using too many
>> labels with the same name for this behaviour to be problematic, especially
>> if it is not freaking BASIC ;-), so...
>
> The Linux Kernel is full of "goto out" or "goto err" its a common error handling
> practice. I actually like it because it taps onto a known pattern.
>
> Now the patch tell me @@@ lable out: !! that's not very useful I would say
>
> Thanks I'm sure I can shape it up the way I like it

Incidentally, if these annoyances were inherited from GNU diff, it would
be good to send a bug report there too,... I doubt anybody likes the
behavior any better with diff!

[I know I've been annoyed by such things before...]

Thanks,

-Miles

-- 
Innards, n. pl. The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-26  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-25 19:14 git diff annoyance / feature request Boaz Harrosh
2011-08-25 20:00 ` Jeff King
2011-08-25 20:40   ` [RFC/PATCH] attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known extensions Jeff King
2011-08-25 21:00     ` Eric Sunshine
2011-08-25 21:06       ` Jeff King
2011-08-25 22:01         ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-08-25 23:44         ` Eric Sunshine
2011-08-26  2:39           ` Jeff King
2011-08-25 22:29     ` Brandon Casey
2011-08-26  2:45       ` Jeff King
2011-08-26  3:58         ` Eric Sunshine
2011-08-26 15:33         ` Brandon Casey
2011-08-25 22:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-26  2:59       ` Jeff King
2011-08-26  5:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-26  9:44     ` Thomas Rast
2011-08-27  5:14     ` Alexey Shumkin
2011-08-25 20:27 ` git diff annoyance / feature request Junio C Hamano
2011-08-25 21:58   ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-08-26  9:08     ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-08-26 21:16 ` René Scharfe
2011-08-26 21:37   ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-08-26 21:52     ` Junio C Hamano

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