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Re: [PATCH 4/5] mv: improve overwrite warning

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 12, 2011, 21:52 UTC
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<20111212215238.GD9754@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:57:31AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > This message looks overly long to me, but I wanted to match the existing
> > messages. Another option would be just:
> >
> >   warning: overwriting 'three/one'
> 
> Yes, I think it makes perfect sense to drop the ugly "source=one destination=two"
> cruft, both for single-source and multiple-source cases.

Yeah, the more I look at the message in the patch I sent, the uglier it gets. Here's a re-rolled 4 and 5 with the nicer format.

-Peff
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Message 12 of 16 in “git 1.7.7.3: BUG - please make git mv -f quiet”
  1. Jari AaltoDec 11, 2011
  2. 0/5 mixed bag of minor "git mv" fixesJeff King, Dec 12, 2011
  3. 1/5 docs: mention "-k" for both forms of "git mv"Jeff King, Dec 12, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2011
  5. 2/5 mv: honor --verbose flagJeff King, Dec 12, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2011
  7. Jeff KingDec 12, 2011
  8. 3/5 mv: make non-directory destination error more clearJeff King, Dec 12, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2011
  10. 4/5 mv: improve overwrite warningJeff King, Dec 12, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2011
  12. Jeff KingDec 12, 2011
  13. 4/5 mv: improve overwrite warningJeff King, Dec 12, 2011
  14. 5/5 mv: be quiet about overwritingJeff King, Dec 12, 2011
  15. 5/5 mv: be quiet about overwritingJeff King, Dec 12, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2011

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