From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2.1] revision.h: turn rev_info.early_output back into an unsigned int
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:30:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170612213002.d3t2tamct3vkz7un@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170610114101.21026-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 01:41:01PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> rev_info.early_output started out as an unsigned int in cdcefbc97 (Add
> "--early-output" log flag for interactive GUI use, 2007-11-03), but
> later it was turned into a single bit in a bit field in cc243c3ce
> (show: --ignore-missing, 2011-05-18) without explanation, though the
> code using it still expects it to be a regular integer type and uses
> it as a counter. Consequently, any even number given via
> '--early-output=<N>', or indeed a plain '--early-output' defaulting to
> 100 effectively disabled the feature.
>
> Turn rev_info.early_output back into its origin unsigned int data
> type, making '--early-output' work again.
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> > But the "users still expect" bit was a bit subtle to me, as I thought
> > you meant users of Git. But you mean that the feature itself is not a
> > boolean, but rather an integer count of how much early output to show.
>
> Yeah, I wrote "callsites" first, but then realized it's not a
> function...
>
> Here is the same patch with an updated commit message now saying "code
> using it" and "used as a counter" to make it clearer. It also
> mentions that an argumentless '--early-output' turns off the feature,
> too.
>
> I won't resend the rest of the series.
Thanks, this version is much more clear.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-12 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-02 19:10 [PATCH 0/3] Use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_{,pseudo_}opt() SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-02 19:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] revision.c: stricter parsing of '--no-{min,max}-parents' SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-02 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] revision.c: use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_opt() SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-02 20:11 ` Jeff King
2017-06-02 20:15 ` Jeff King
2017-06-09 18:17 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-09 18:17 ` [PATCHv2 1/5] revision.h: turn rev_info.early_output back into an unsigned int SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-10 6:41 ` Jeff King
2017-06-10 11:41 ` [PATCHv2.1] " SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-12 21:30 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-06-12 20:36 ` [PATCHv2 1/5] " Junio C Hamano
2017-06-12 21:59 ` Jeff King
2017-06-13 0:50 ` Jeff King
2017-06-09 18:17 ` [PATCHv2 2/5] revision.c: stricter parsing of '--no-{min,max}-parents' SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-09 18:17 ` [PATCHv2 3/5] revision.c: stricter parsing of '--early-output' SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-10 4:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-09 18:17 ` [PATCHv2 4/5] revision.c: use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_opt() SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-09 18:17 ` [PATCHv2 5/5] revision.c: use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_pseudo_opt() SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-10 6:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] revision.c: use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_opt() Jeff King
2017-06-10 6:44 ` Jeff King
2017-06-02 19:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] revision.c: use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_pseudo_opt() SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-02 20:17 ` [PATCH 0/3] Use skip_prefix() in handle_revision_{,pseudo_}opt() Jeff King
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