From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:09:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --porcelain option to git-push
Message-ID: <4A410C64.9030903@xiplink.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4ou79cga.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Both good points.  --porcelain is fine by me.

		M.


Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:
> 
>> Shouldn't this option be named "--plumbing" since it's making 'git push'
>> act like plumbing?  Actually, neither name seems intuitively descriptive
>> to me...
> 
> Perhaps.  But asking for output format designed for Porcelain
> implementions to read with --porcelain option has precedence.
> 
>> Why not teach 'git push' to change its output format if it's writing to a pipe?
> 
> That is ugly.  Besides, "writing to a pipe" would not be a right criteria,
> if you want to do
> 
>           git push >log
>           if grep blah log
>           then
>                 do blah thing
>           fi
>           if grep baa log
>           then
>                 do baa thing, too
>           fi
> 
> When you make a program behave differently depending on where your stdout
> goes, typically you see if it is going to the terminal (e.g. isatty(3)),
> but even then you would need an explicit override from the command line
> when stdout is a tty and you do not want "for humans" frills (e.g. color),
> and when stdout is not a tty and you do want such frills.
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