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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:16:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110217221645.GA10007@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpqqqbfgr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> Wait, does this mean that -c/-C/--amend/CHERRY_PICK_HEAD overrides
>> GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE?
[...]
> Hmph, -c/-C/--amend is like giving the identity with --author from the
> command line so overriding the values from the environment variables
> sounds like the right thing to do.

Good point.  There are two principles at work here:

 - options with more specific effect override more general ones
 - options on the command line override the environment

On second thought, the latter does seem more relevant (though it need
not apply to CHERRY_PICK_HEAD).

Thanks for a sanity check.
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-16 10:08 [PATCH 0/2] CHERRY_PICK_HEAD Jay Soffian
2011-02-16 10:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD Jay Soffian
2011-02-16 11:13   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-16 16:50     ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-16 17:20   ` [PATCH v2] " Jay Soffian
2011-02-16 17:25     ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-16 21:42     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-16 22:13       ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-16 23:02         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-17 19:58           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-17 22:16             ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-02-16 10:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] Teach commit about CHERRY_PICK_HEAD Jay Soffian
2011-02-16 21:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-16 21:33     ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-16 21:55   ` [PATCH 1.5/2] bash: teach __git_ps1 " Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-16 22:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-16 22:43   ` [PATCH 2/2] Teach commit " Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-17  0:05     ` Jay Soffian

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