Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Oct 30, 2008, 15:25 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0810301518300.13964@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20081030132453.GB24098@artemis.corp>

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:48:05AM +0000, Sam Vilain wrote:
>> +Working with patches
>> +--------------------
>> +
>> +  * 'git send-email' should prompt for all SMTP-related information
>> +    about sending e-mail when it is running with no configuration.
>> +    Because these days /usr/lib/sendmail is rarely configured
>> +    correctly.
>
> And when the user answer them, it should set them (a bit like zsh does
> when it's run from the first time e.g.)
>
>> +
>> +  * other git send-email functionality which has bitten people -
>> +    particularly building the recipient list - should prompt for
>> +    confirmation until configured to be automatic.
>> +
>
>  * git-send-email should be either more interactive, or less: either
>    just use the damn configuration, or propose a mode where it spawns
>    an editor for each patch so that you can add further comments.
>
>  * git-send-email should be able to format-patches by himself (IOW
>    accept most of format-patch arguments and deal with the patch list
>    by himself, which is usable if the previous point is implemented).

This gets my vote ...

These are two of the reasons that I ended up ignoring git-send-email and writing my own replacement. I found the whole format-patch/send-email dance too cumbersome and confusing - particularly for sending a single patch. To send a single patch I ended up with the command:

git mail-commmits --edit HEAD~1

It would be nice if I could replace this with:

git send-email --edit HEAD~1

;)

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>> +  * 'git am -3' the default; with global option to make it not the
>> +    default for those that prefer the speed of -2
>> +
>> +

-- 
Julian

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