From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:11:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] for-each-repo: new command used for multi-repo operations
Message-ID: <CAFXTnz6zN0izx8S23JFww5niVD6x-r2e7TSthqZnempUrvAEWw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130128081006.GA2434@elie.Belkin>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Lars Hjemli wrote:
>
>> [1] The 'git -a' rewrite patch shows how I think about this command -
>> it's just an option to the 'git' command, modifying the way any
>> subcommand is invoked (btw: I don't expect that patch to be applied
>> since 'git-all' was deemed to generic, so I'll just carry the patch in
>> my own tree).
>
> As one data point, 'git all' also seems too generic to me but 'git -a'
> doesn't.  Intuition can be weird.
>
> So if I ran the world, then having commands
>
>         git -a diff
>
> and
>
>         git for-each-repo git diff
>
> do the same thing would be fine.  Of course I don't run the world. ;-)

This would make me very happy. Junio?

--
larsh