Re: [PATCH] contrib/git-jump: cat output when not a terminal

From: George Brown <321.george@gmail.com>
Date: May 10, 2020, 19:25 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFKec1Uya31withxzAqwFSVxqgxj_RbU1B6NrMYQ4U8WzLOs6g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk11jtxl3.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

> Imagine a user wanted to spawn a graphical editor via git-jump from within
> a GUI script (probably launched from a window manager menu and has no
> gqipterminal).  With git-jump with this patch, such a use will be broken, no?

Aha OK that's an example that I didn't grok from your earlier mails, I had only been thinking in the context of editors. The reasoning behind the "escape hatch" you describe makes sense.

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> Unilaterally breaking, and ignoring when you are told you are
> breaking, possible existing users, without giving them any escape
> hatch, is simply irresponsible, and not something done in this
> project.  But I am sensing that you are not listening to and
> thinking about what you hear before you respond, so I will stop
> spending time on this topic for now, and wait until others chime in.

I apologise for not understanding, it was not my intention to be willfully ignorant.