Re: [Proposal] git am --check

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2019, 09:28 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1W_tB34N-uAA85+QkHY6kmGWYYM47zceP3=5aTwxwvnQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BUJFK0ZEKP5I.16DDFWUTXGJTE@homura>

On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 7:38 PM Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> wrote:

>
> This flag would behave similarly to git apply --check, or in other words
> would exit with a nonzero status if the patch is not applicable without
> actually applying the patch otherwise.

`git am` uses the same code as `git apply` to apply patches, so there should be no difference between `git am --check` and `git apply --check`.

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> Rationale: I'm working on an email client which has some git
> integration, and when you scroll over a patch I want to quickly test its
> applicability and show an indication of the result.
>
> Thoughts on the approach are welcome; my initial naive patch just tried
> to add --check to the apply flags but that didn't work as I had hoped.
> Will take another crack at a patch soon(ish).

Could you tell us about what didn't work as you hoped? And how `git am --check` would be different from `git apply --check`?