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From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] making log --first-parent imply -m
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 02:07:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imdujbrz.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqft8yf7gj.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:54:04 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The only question regarding it I then have for now is what are
>> preferences for names selection inside single option? Abbreviated yet
>> somewhat sensible, or verbose? I mean:
>>
>> --diff-merges=first vs --diff-merges=first-parent
>>
>> --diff-merges=comb vs --diff-merges=combined
>>
>> etc. What's better?
>
> If we were to shoot for easy-to-type, we could go for ultra-short
> abbreviations like 'no', 'c', 'cc', 'each' (the last one is the
> traditional "-m" when used without "--first-parent"; diff with each
> parent) and later add 'fp', but in a sense we are already lost the
> easy-to-type goal by "--diff-merges" being sufficiently long.

Do I get it right that there are no common guidelines and every case is
to be considered separately?

Anyway:

$ git log -d
fatal: unrecognized argument: -d
$ git show -d
fatal: unrecognized argument: -d

so it seems we still have -d to (ab)use for, say "-d 1" or "-d m", if we
decide to.

>
> I personally wouldn't choose "first" or "first-parent", but just use
> "1", so that we could support "2" when viewing a merge that was done
> in the wrong direction with "git show", though.

I fail to see how using "first-parent" would deny using a number either
later or right now, though based on your own rating of octopus merges
with which I whole-heartedly agree, the only thing we'd ever need seems
to be "second-parent", or 2.

> IOW, even though I said that "use these parents but not those" (i.e.
> set of parents) smells overkill, at least to me, I think specifying a
> single parent that is not necessarily the first one would be a
> reasonable thing to do.

The second parent, I'd agree. Others? Well, that's more a completeness
theoretical issue to me rather than practical one. More relevant to
plumbing than to porcelain thereof. And, as additional safety, we still
have that "all|every|each|split" -m that will show needed diff among
others.

>
> So, if I were to vote, it would be
>
>     "--diff-merges=" ( first-parent        | 1 |
> 		         combined            | c |
>                        dense-combined      | cc |
>                        each-parent         | m )
>     "--no-diff-merges"
>
> leaving some room to add '2' and  <any posInt> later.

Thanks for voting!

I believe we still have the room for digits even if we use first-parent,
and then won't

 "--first-parent implies --diff-merges=first-parent"

sound really cool?

Overall, I incline to support short (traditional and numbered) variants
along with new longer spellings at the same time, similar to short and
long options.

Thanks,
-- Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-07 23:07 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
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 [this message]
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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