From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
To: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: use --pretty=reference for copysummary
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 08:58:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191211215826.GA31614@blackberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da9321b1bd56aafd16c8dcb99d5d628b79e2244e.1576100147.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 01:39:50PM -0800, Denton Liu wrote:
> In an earlier commit[1], git learned the 'reference' pretty format.
> Update copysummary to use this pretty format instead of manually
> reimplementing it as a format string.
>
> With this change, we lose the double-quotes surrounding the commit
> subject but it seems the consensus is that the unquoted form is used
> more often anyway[2] so this change should be acceptable.
>
> Since gitk and git are usually packaged and distributed together, their
> versions should be in sync so we should not have to worry a newer gitk
> running on top of an older version of git that doesn't support the
> 'reference' pretty format.
In fact my policy is not to do this (introduce a change to gitk that
means it requires the very latest git). I would want the code either
to test the git version (which the code already does in other places)
or handle failure gracefully and fall back to the old command.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-11 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-11 21:39 [PATCH] gitk: use --pretty=reference for copysummary Denton Liu
2019-12-11 21:58 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2019-12-11 22:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-13 0:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] gitk: match Git's 'reference' pretty format Denton Liu
2019-12-13 0:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] gitk: drop quotes in copysummary format Denton Liu
2019-12-13 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-15 4:19 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-12-13 0:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] gitk: rename "commit summary" to "commit reference" Denton Liu
2019-12-13 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-15 4:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-12-13 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] gitk: match Git's 'reference' pretty format Junio C Hamano
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