Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2019, #05; Tue, 29)

From: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 5, 2019, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20190205204208.GC6085@hank.intra.tgummerer.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh8djtf6n.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On 02/04, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > There was also some discussion around the naming of the option, but I
> > don't have a strong opinion on that, so I'm happy with keeping the
> > --[no-]overlay option.  I just wanted to bring it up again here in
> > case someone had a very strong opinion, and would prefer it being
> > changed before this goes into 2.21.  (Not sure if I'm too late for the
> > series going to master).
> 
> I do not mind leaving this topic out of 'master' for now, if that
> would help migrate people only once instead of twice.  I think the
> real UI improvement would come with the new pair of commands split
> out of here, "switch-branches" and "restore-files", which will not
> happen within the timeframe of the current cycle anyway.

Agreed, I don't mind having this topic wait a little longer until "restore-files" actually becomes a thing. Just keeping it in 'next' for now sounds good to me.

> In any case, I think it is probably sensible to revert this step.
> Will queue; thanks.