From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Xenos <sxenos@google.com>
Cc: szeder.dev@gmail.com,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
Junio C Hamano <jch@google.com>,
Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>,
Carl Baldwin <carl@ecbaldwin.net>,
Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] technical doc: add a design doc for the evolve command
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:09:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181120010911.GA62243@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPL8ZivQGGrxjerGxd_R42mJ2XCi_fFcOji3PL0=pWRAZ_OJQQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Stefan Xenos wrote:
> But since several comments have focused on the commands, let's brainstorm!
>
> Here's some options that occur to me:
>
> 1. Three commands: evolve + change + obslog as top-level commands (the
> current proposal). Change gets a bunch of subcommands for manipulating
> the change graph and metas/ namespace.
>
> 2. All top-level: evolve + lschange + mkchange + rmchange +
> prunechange + obslog. None of the commands get subcommands.
>
> 3. Everything under change: "change evolve", "change obslog" become
> new change subcommands.
>
> 4. Evolve as a rebase argument, obslog as a log argument. Use "rebase
> --evolve" to initiate evolve and use "log --obslog" to initiate
> obslog. The change command stays as it is in the proposal.
>
> 5. Two commands: evolve + change. obslog becomes a "log" argument.
>
> Note that there will be more "evolve"-specific arguments in the
> future. For most transformations that evolve uses, there will be a
> matching argument to enable or disable that transformation and as we
> add transformations we'll also add arguments.
>
> If we go with option 3, it would make for a very cluttered help page.
> For example, if you're looking for information on how to use evolve,
> you'd have to scroll past a bunch of formatting information that are
> only relevant to obslog... and if you're looking for the formatting
> options, you'd have to scroll past a bunch of
> transformation-enablement options that are only relevant to evolve.
>
> Based on your log feedback above, I'm thinking #5 may make sense.
(5) sounds good to me, too. Thanks, both, for your thoughtfulness.
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-15 0:55 [PATCH] technical doc: add a design doc for the evolve command sxenos
2018-11-15 12:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-17 20:30 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-19 15:55 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-11-19 21:32 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-20 1:09 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2018-11-15 15:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-20 1:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-11-20 9:43 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-20 17:45 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-20 22:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-11-20 23:45 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-21 1:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-11-21 19:10 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-16 21:36 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-11-17 23:44 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-17 6:06 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-18 22:27 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-18 22:29 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-18 23:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-17 7:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-19 0:36 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-19 2:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-19 3:33 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-19 3:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-19 4:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-19 20:14 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-19 20:26 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-11-20 1:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-20 17:27 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-20 12:18 ` Phillip Wood
2018-11-20 12:59 ` Phillip Wood
2018-11-20 20:19 ` Stefan Xenos
2019-01-15 11:16 ` Phillip Wood
2018-11-20 13:03 ` Phillip Wood
2018-11-20 20:24 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-21 12:14 ` Phillip Wood
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