From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:56:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: warn against --committer-date-is-author-date
Message-ID: <851d8c3a-b812-494f-b981-fa1bc0990428@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqjz13d9fy.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Oct 9, 2025, at 23:58, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name> writes:
>> By the way. I thought of adding a stderr warning when using this option
>> on git-rebase(1). But I don’t think I’ve seen that used in this program
>> before. If so, why is that? That’s more in your face than just adding it
>> to the documentation.
>>
>> Is it about people parsing stderr, maybe..?
>
> Standard error stream would be buried in other progress things, and
> it won't be seen if you are "rebase -i" interactive, in which case
> the first thing you see is a full-screen editor with list of
> instructions
>
> (where we _could_ add new warning text).

Ooh, that sounds interesting. >:)