From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] making log --first-parent imply -m
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:08:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803180824.GA2711830@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8nrybnb.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 06:47:20PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
> > A command line option that takes _optional_ argument is evil; it
> > hurts teachability (e.g. "why does this option always require
> > "--opt=val" and refuses '--opt val'?").
>
> Yeah, I sympathize.
Sorry, the optional argument was my suggestion. I don't think they're
that evil, but I agree they require extra knowledge for the user. I
don't mind avoiding them when possible (and it's definitely possible
here).
> > Introduce --diff-parent=(none|<parent-number>|c|cc|all) that is
> > different from --diff-merges, and -m and --[no-]diff-merges can be
> > defined in terms of that, at which point we can gradually deprecate
> > them if we wanted to, no?
>
> Sounds great, I only hoped we can do it right now, with this new
> --diff-merges option, maybe as a pre-requisite to the patches in
> question, but Jeff said it's too late, dunno why.
It's too late for "-m" to change semantics (we could do a long
deprecation, but I don't see much point in doing so). But --diff-merges
is definitely still changeable until we release v2.29. My resistance was
mostly that I didn't want to complicate my series by adding new
elements. But we could do something on top.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-03 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-28 16:36 [PATCH 0/3] making --first-parent imply -m Jeff King
2020-07-28 16:36 ` [PATCH 1/3] log: drop "--cc implies -m" logic Jeff King
2020-07-28 16:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] revision: add "--ignore-merges" option to counteract "-m" Jeff King
2020-07-28 17:52 ` Chris Torek
2020-07-29 18:42 ` Jeff King
2020-07-28 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 18:22 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 18:30 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 18:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-28 16:39 ` [PATCH 3/3] log: enable "-m" automatically with "--first-parent" Jeff King
2020-07-28 16:47 ` [PATCH 0/3] making --first-parent imply -m Jeff King
2020-07-28 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-28 16:53 ` Jeff King
2020-07-28 16:55 ` Taylor Blau
2020-07-29 20:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] making log " Jeff King
2020-07-29 20:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] log: drop "--cc implies -m" logic Jeff King
2020-07-29 20:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] revision: add "--no-diff-merges" option to counteract "-m" Jeff King
2020-07-29 20:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] log: enable "-m" automatically with "--first-parent" Jeff King
2020-07-29 20:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 20:11 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] doc/git-log: move "Diff Formatting" from rev-list-options Jeff King
2020-07-29 20:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 21:02 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 20:11 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] doc/git-log: drop "-r" diff option Jeff King
2020-07-29 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] doc/git-log: move "-t" into diff-options list Jeff King
2020-07-29 21:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 21:55 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] doc/git-log: clarify handling of merge commit diffs Jeff King
2020-07-29 21:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] making log --first-parent imply -m Chris Torek
2020-07-29 21:41 ` Sergey Organov
2020-07-31 23:08 ` Jeff King
2020-08-02 12:59 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-02 17:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 15:47 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-03 16:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 16:41 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-03 17:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-03 20:25 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-03 20:58 ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 21:16 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-03 18:08 ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-08-03 20:00 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-03 20:55 ` Jeff King
2020-08-03 21:18 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 17:50 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04 20:00 ` Jeff King
2020-08-04 20:55 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 21:22 ` Jeff King
2020-08-04 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04 22:06 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 22:14 ` Jeff King
2020-08-04 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 8:26 ` Jeff King
2020-08-07 9:25 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-07 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 17:52 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-07 19:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 19:12 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-07 19:20 ` Jeff King
2020-08-07 19:28 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-07 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 20:29 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-07 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 21:08 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-07 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-07 23:07 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 22:53 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 21:21 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 21:26 ` Jeff King
2020-08-04 19:58 ` Jeff King
2020-08-04 20:56 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 21:25 ` Jeff King
2020-08-04 21:41 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 22:07 ` Jeff King
2020-08-04 22:15 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 21:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-04 21:44 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 21:58 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-04 22:08 ` Jeff King
2020-08-04 22:26 ` [PATCH] revision: fix die() message for "--unpacked=" Sergey Organov
2020-08-05 0:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-05 15:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] making log --first-parent imply -m Sergey Organov
2020-08-05 16:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-05 17:55 ` Sergey Organov
2020-08-05 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-05 20:27 ` Sergey Organov
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