Re: [PATCH v2 00/94] libify apply and use lib in am

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: May 14, 2016, 19:37 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0GrSy9E5Yv9Bdbd8SK+Q8GgYW2jDC-iopzsajpA6BKsw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwpmw7aow.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> I however do not see a reason why you need to expose that feature to
> the users of "git apply".  So I am not sure if any of us care deeply
> the choice among --silent, --quiet and -q -q.

About that I wrote in initial email above:

"The last patch 94/94 adds a --silent command line option to git apply. This is not necessary, but some scripts could perhaps use it, and it could make it easier to test the new silent feature."

I expose the feature in the last patch exactly because, if we don't want to expose the feature, is is easy to do by just dropping the last patch. And I explain the reasons why it might be a good idea to expose the feature, but I am also ok with just dropping the patch.