From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:54:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] revert: only suggest to commit if not passing -n
Message-ID: <7vvd7fkt7y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1280062470-21891-1-git-send-email-carenas@sajinet.com.pe>

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe> writes:

> while doing revert or cherry-pick, if the automatic merge fails
> and the user specifically suggested he didn't want to commit,
> then don't suggest to do that as part of the conflict resolution.

I agree that the suggestion does not make sense, but realistically, when
the user said

    git cherry-pick --no-commit $something

we have no idea if the user wants to add or remove once the conflict has
been resolved.  More often than not, "cherry-pick --no-commit" is followed
by further edit, at least in the use cases I've seen, so "git add/rm" is
not the first command the user will run after resolving the conflicts.

So it _might_ make sense not to even suggest "add/rm" in that case.

After all, this is a help/advice message, and "cherry-pick --no-commit"
is sort of an advanced feature anyway, so...

> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
> ---
>  builtin/revert.c |   20 ++++++++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/revert.c b/builtin/revert.c
> index 8b9d829..b7cb69b 100644
> --- a/builtin/revert.c
> +++ b/builtin/revert.c
> @@ -250,14 +250,18 @@ static char *help_msg(void)
>  		return msg;
>  
>  	strbuf_addstr(&helpbuf, "  After resolving the conflicts,\n"
> -		"mark the corrected paths with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'\n"
> -		"and commit the result");
> +		"mark the corrected paths with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'");
> +	if (!no_commit) {
> +		strbuf_addstr(&helpbuf, "\nand commit the result");
>  
> -	if (action == CHERRY_PICK) {
> -		strbuf_addf(&helpbuf, " with: \n"
> -			"\n"
> -			"        git commit -c %s\n",
> -			    sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1));
> +		if (action == CHERRY_PICK) {
> +			strbuf_addf(&helpbuf, " with: \n"
> +				"\n"
> +				"        git commit -c %s\n",
> +				    sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1));
> +		}
> +		else
> +			strbuf_addch(&helpbuf, '.');
>  	}
>  	else
>  		strbuf_addch(&helpbuf, '.');
> -- 
> 1.7.2