Re: Call Me Gitless

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Jeff King wrote:

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:22:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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I do not know if I like the end result, but here is a patch to make the
traditional a/ and b/ prefix more mnemonic.

Hmm. Something deep in my gut doesn't like this, just because I like the
fact that no matter how I prepare a diff (and I do tend to do it
different ways and post to the mailing list) it always ends up the same.
For example, I sometimes "hand-generate" patch messages meant to be
applied by git-am by doing a diff between the working tree and index and
pasting the result into an email. It just feels a bit wrong for it not
to be the exact output I would get from commiting and running
format-patch.

Hmm... everybody who doesn't like it is concerned about scripts and 
sending it places, while the people who like it seem to be interested in 
looking at the output. Maybe there should be an option that controls it, 
with the default being to use -a+b for pipelines and informational stuff 
for pager?

It seems to me like, in output for user consumption, the information is 
useful, while in output for non-user consumption, the information is 
overly personal. But that's easy enough to detect...

(For that matter, maybe format-patch should be able to handle uncommitted 
changes, and should hide what it did? What's with all these people faking 
format-patch output with other commands, rather than having format-patch 
actually generate suitable output in their situations?)

	-Daniel
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