Re: [PATCH v6 02/10] replace: add --graft option
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Jul 11, 2014, 18:25 UTC
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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: >> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: >>> >>>>> "Making sure A's parent is B" would be an >>>>> idempotent operation, no? Why not just make sure A's parent is >>>>> already B and report "Your wish has been granted" to the user? >>> >>> ... and here you say we should report "your wish has been granted"... >> >> Normal way for "git replace" to report that is to exit with status 0 >> and without any noise, I would think. > > In a similar case "git replace --edit" we error out instead of just > exiting (with status 0), see: > > f22166b5fee7dc (replace: make sure --edit results in a different object)
I do not care *too* deeply, but if you ask me, that may be a mistake we may want to fix before the next release.