Re: Call Me Gitless

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 19, 2008, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20080819184525.GA17691@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0808191407160.19665@iabervon.org>

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:39:22PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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> 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?

To clarify my statement: no, I'm concerned about looking at it. That is, I don't think it will break scripts, but I think the output is potentially confusing to humans.

But like I said before, it's just my intuition; I don't have real facts to back it up, so feel free to ignore.

> (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?)

I do it because I haven't actually committed the content. I dump the diff right into an email I'm already writing.

-Peff