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Re: [PATCH 2/4] fast-import: define a new option command

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 13, 2009, 22:17 UTC
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Heya,
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:12, Shawn O. Pearce<spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> No, I don't have a really good reason for the command line overrides
> the file other than this simple rule:
Nice anecdote :P.
> What is this, gang up on Shawn's words-of-wisdom week?  Both this
> thread and my intern this week have been argueing with me about
> what seem to me to be fairly trivial things.  Maybe I just need to
> take vacation.  Good thing I have one coming in 5 weeks.
Didn't you get the memo, you could be crashing an airplane [0] like that ;).
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> I say use the version where we store the values (e.g. file names)
> during option parsing, and then actually apply those saved values
> just before the first non-option command.  Which I think only has
> an impact on the import-marks option, the rest are all just simple
> variable updates whose values aren't read until after the first
> non-option command anyway.
Ok, that's v3, speaking of which, does it look good enough for inclusion?
[0] http://www.thehackerchickblog.com/2009/05/plane-crashes-software-failures-and.html
-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  1. 0/4 fast-import: add a new option commandSverre Rabbelier, Aug 13, 2009
  2. 1/4 fast-import: put option parsing code in seperate functionsSverre Rabbelier, Aug 13, 2009
  3. 2/4 fast-import: define a new option commandSverre Rabbelier, Aug 13, 2009
  4. 3/4 fast-import: add option commandSverre Rabbelier, Aug 13, 2009
  5. 4/4 fast-import: test the new option commandSverre Rabbelier, Aug 13, 2009
  6. Shawn O. PearceAug 13, 2009
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  25. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2009
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