Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add -k/--keep-going option to mergetool
- From
Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
- Date
- Nov 24, 2008, 22:03 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20081124220311.GB5293@hashpling.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <20081115155603.GD22948@mit.edu>
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:56:03AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
Show 11 quoted lines
> Instead of making this be a command-line and configuration option, > maybe it would be better to prompt the user after an aborted merge, > and give the user the opportunity to continue or abort? i.e., instead > of just saying "merge of foo.c failed" and then exiting, to ask the > user instad something like, "Merge of foo.c failed; continue > attempting to merge the rest of the files? <y>" > > I suspect this might be more friendly than Yet Another command-line > option and configuration parameter. What do you think? > > - Ted
This sounds like a really good alternative interface option. The next time I have a moment (could be a while!) I'll try and make a patch based on this idea.
Charles.