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Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add -n/--no-prompt option to mergetool

From
William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 24, 2008, 22:32 UTC
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Charles Bailey wrote:
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> 
> After more thoughts, I'm somewhat in favour of dropping the short
> switch altogether. As it just saves a single keypress per merge I
> imagine that most mergetool users, once they discover this new
> feature and decide that they want to use it, will prefer to use a user
> config option to switch it on. The command line option then becomes
> something that you would only need to use to override your normal
> default and something on which to hang the option description in the
> man page.

If the short option is dropped, the config option should probably associated with mergetool.<tool>.interactive rather than mergetool.interactive. (s/interactive/whatever)

-- 
William Pursell
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Message 10 of 13 in “Fix some tab/space inconsistencies in git-mergetool.sh”
  1. 1/3 Fix some tab/space inconsistencies in git-mergetool.shCharles Bailey, Oct 21, 2008
  2. 2/3 Add -n/--no-prompt option to mergetoolCharles Bailey, Oct 21, 2008
  3. 3/3 Add -k/--keep-going option to mergetoolCharles Bailey, Oct 21, 2008
  4. Jeff KingOct 21, 2008
  5. Andreas EricssonOct 21, 2008
  6. Charles BaileyOct 21, 2008
  7. Charles BaileyOct 22, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2008
  9. Charles BaileyOct 23, 2008
  10. William PursellOct 24, 2008
  11. Charles BaileyOct 24, 2008
  12. William PursellOct 25, 2008
  13. Charles BaileyNov 13, 2008

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