Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 18, 2008, 11:55 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807181351370.3932@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <7v63r38r4r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> +The 'recursive' strategy can take the following options:
> +
> +ours;;

You still have not addressed the issue that you can specify multiple strategies, or even a single _wrong_ one. So:

	$ git merge -s stupid -Xours

would not fail at all, but definitely not do the right thing either (it disobeys a direct command of the user).

Apart from having to choose different -X option names for the different backends, to avoid them from clashing when you specify multiple strategies, you also deprive the user from being able to try the _same_ backend with different options.

IOW all my objections to the -X option (even that it does not fit with our short option parsing paradigm) still apply.

We already have the "-S" wart, let's not add to that pile.

Ciao, Dscho