From: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add -n/--no-prompt option to mergetool
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:26:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021122655.GA29294@hashpling.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48FDC1CA.2080800@op5.se>
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:49:30PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
> There is discussion already about "-n should be for dry-run!" and git's
> inconsistencies in such matters. Wouldn't -y ("assume yes on prompt")
> be better?
>
I must have missed this discussion. I've just had a very quick look at
a handful of basic modifying git commands (merge, pull, commit,
checkout, reset, revert) and only found 'add' that used -n as
--dry-run.
That said, I've no real objections to -y if that makes for a better
consensus.
--
Charles Bailey
http://ccgi.hashpling.plus.com/blog/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 10:13 [PATCH 1/3] Fix some tab/space inconsistencies in git-mergetool.sh Charles Bailey
2008-10-21 10:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add -n/--no-prompt option to mergetool Charles Bailey
2008-10-21 10:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add -k/--keep-going " Charles Bailey
2008-10-21 11:12 ` Jeff King
2008-10-21 11:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add -n/--no-prompt " Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-21 12:26 ` Charles Bailey [this message]
2008-10-22 21:17 ` Charles Bailey
2008-10-22 23:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-23 6:44 ` Charles Bailey
2008-10-24 22:32 ` William Pursell
2008-10-24 22:55 ` Charles Bailey
2008-10-25 10:11 ` William Pursell
2008-11-13 12:28 ` Charles Bailey
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