From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:25:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 02/10] replace: add --graft option
Message-ID: <xmqq4myn4us8.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD2db=ZMFSvzW6be3gBv7DP93C7Z5yfOEhs9QLNOkX0fGQ@mail.gmail.com>

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.