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Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-what: explain what to do next

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Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Date
May 29, 2008, 14:56 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> 
>> It seems not very friendly to just "return 1" when not bisecting.
>> And before my last patch to use BISECT_START to check if we are bisecting, 
>> it would perhaps have been better to use 'test -f "$GIT_DIR/BISECT_NAMES"'.
> 
> The reason for this silence is because Santi wants to call potential
> culprits in turn and stop when one responds "Yeah, I am the guilty one who
> threw a monkey wrench into the user's workflow".  For that to work, "No,
> the user is not in the middle of any interaction with me" response needs
> to be silent.

Hrm. Do both? Have the normal interactive user command be more verbose, but let the pseudo-scripted version supply an additional --status-only flag as it sequences through the status checks?

jdl
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 14 of 14 in “git-what: explain what to do next”
  1. git-what: explain what to do nextSanti Béjar, May 27, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinMay 27, 2008
  3. Santi BéjarMay 27, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinMay 27, 2008
  5. Santi BéjarMay 27, 2008
  6. Stephen R. van den BergMay 27, 2008
  7. Santi BéjarMay 27, 2008
  8. Steven WalterMay 27, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 27, 2008
  11. Santi BéjarMay 28, 2008
  12. Christian CouderMay 29, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 29, 2008
  14. Jon LoeligerMay 29, 2008

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