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Contributing to git: cleaner git -rm & add configuration options

Subject: Contributing to git: cleaner git -rm & add configuration options

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Mathieu Liénard--Mayor· May 21, 2013, 05:42 UTC · lore

Hello everyone,

I'm Mathieu LIENARD--MAYOR, a french student at Ensimag - Grenoble INP, and together with my fellow student Jorge GARCIA we will try to contribute to git as our school project.

As of now, we are considering the implementation of the following two features: -Cleaner error message when "git rm" fails with multiple files (https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SmallProjectsIdeas#Cleaner_error_message_when_.22git_rm.22_fails_with_multiple_files) -Add configuration options for some commonly used command-line options (https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SmallProjectsIdeas#Add_configuration_options_for_some_commonly_used_command-line_options)

Please let us know if you think those features are interesting choices, or if you have some ideas about how we should do it, or even if you have any comment at all.

Best regards, Mathieu LIENARD--MAYOR & Jorge GARCIA

Ramkumar Ramachandra· May 21, 2013, 07:20 UTC · re: Mathieu Liénard--Mayor · lore

Re: Contributing to git: cleaner git -rm & add configuration options

[+CC: Matthieu Moy]

Mathieu Liénard--Mayor wrote:

> -Cleaner error message when "git rm" fails with multiple files

Should be fairly straightforward to implement. Just collect the errors and print them out at once.

> -Add configuration options for some commonly used command-line options

I'd really like status.short, status.branch, am.scissors and am.3way. Should be fairly straightforward to implement, although others might have different opinions on the names of the configuration variables.

Also, I've taken the liberty to remove three ideas from the list: jk/fetch-always-update-tracking, vv/help-unknown-ref, and rr/rebase-autostash are already in `pu` and will hit `master` soon.

Junio C Hamano· May 21, 2013, 16:35 UTC · re: Ramkumar Ramachandra · lore

Re: Contributing to git: cleaner git -rm & add configuration options

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

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> [+CC: Matthieu Moy]
>
> Mathieu Liénard--Mayor wrote:
>> -Cleaner error message when "git rm" fails with multiple files
>
> Should be fairly straightforward to implement.  Just collect the
> errors and print them out at once.
>
>> -Add configuration options for some commonly used command-line options
>
> I'd really like status.short, status.branch, am.scissors and am.3way.
> Should be fairly straightforward to implement, although others might
> have different opinions on the names of the configuration variables.
>
> Also, I've taken the liberty to remove three ideas from the list:
> jk/fetch-always-update-tracking, vv/help-unknown-ref, and
> rr/rebase-autostash are already in `pu` and will hit `master` soon.

Matheiu, please ignore the "will hit 'master' soon" part. These particular implementations might be ejected from 'pu' without prejudice and discussed further.

But the idea is the same. Somebody have already been working on them.