From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav.id.au>,
Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alphabetize the fast-import options, following a suggestion on the list.
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 00:13:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130106051309.GB2303@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130105231151.GD3247@elie.Belkin>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> But in fact the current options list doesn't seem to be well organized at all.
I agree.
> What do you think would be a logical way to group these?
>
> Features of input syntax
>
> --date-format
> --done
>
> Verbosity
>
> --quiet
> --stats
>
> Marks handling (checkpoint/restore)
>
> --import-marks
> --import-marks-if-exists
> --export-marks
> --relative-marks
>
> Semantics of execution
>
> --dry-run
> --force
> --cat-blob-fd
> --export-pack-edges
>
> Tuning
>
> --active-branches
> --max-pack-size
> --big-file-threshold
> --depth
That would work as well or better than any other organization I can
think of. Um, which is significant because my work on surgery tools
and exporters means I've had to consult this page a *lot*.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-06 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-05 16:44 [PATCH] Alphabetize the fast-import options, following a suggestion on the list Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-05 23:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-06 5:13 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2013-01-06 7:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-06 13:29 ` [PATCH] git-fast-import(1): reorganise options John Keeping
2013-01-06 13:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-06 14:28 ` John Keeping
2013-01-06 23:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-09 19:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Reorganise options in git-fast-import(1) John Keeping
2013-01-09 19:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] git-fast-import(1): combine documentation of --[no-]relative-marks John Keeping
2013-01-09 21:42 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-09 19:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] git-fast-import(1): reorganise options John Keeping
2013-01-09 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-06 13:34 ` [PATCH/RFC] fast-import doc: split OPTIONS into subsections Jonathan Nieder
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