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From: "Kaartic.Sivaraam" <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: issue "-l" deprecation warning after pager starts
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 11:22:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d9c365e-4a04-6a25-b942-c7d1db960002@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzi0hety4.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Wednesday 30 May 2018 08:22 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
>> Right, what I meant by "gentler" is that we continue to perform the same
>> behavior as the old version, alongside the warning. It's arguable here
>> because running "git branch -l" has _always_ been wrong. It's just wrong
>> in a way that happens to do what the user wants. ;)
>> ...
>>> Anyways, if you think it mustn't turn into an error now and only in the
>>> next stage, a suggestion follows in another thread.
>>
>> I don't think "mustn't", but I have a slight preference for what I
>> posted, as I think it is a little friendlier during the transition (at
>> the risk of somebody missing the warning, but then step 2 turns it into
>> a hard error anyway, so they'll certainly find out then).
> 
> Well, we could keep treating '-l' given in contexts where we have
> silently ignored the option and did "list" instead as before during
> the transition, until the very end where it becomes an explicit
> "list" command, no?  Then there is no need to even warn against '-l'
> that is ignored because we are listing in the earliest step.  The
> only usage that requires a warning then becomes '-l' used for its
> original meaning to create a reflog, right?  That sounds gentler to
> me.
> 

That sounds interesting. I guess that would avoid the confusion I was 
speaking of from the beginning of this thread as the warning message 
would not be shown at all for "git branch -l". Of course, it would then 
confuse people who discover that "git branch -l" lists and "git branch 
-l $prefix" creates a branch with name "$prefix" (if it's valid) instead 
of listing branch names with prefix "$prefix". So, it might be worth 
considering.

BTW, I suspect this would make the deprecation of "-l" a little unsual 
as the no. of people who see the deprecation warning would be less as 
the warning is shown only for "git branch -l $branch" and I also suspect 
the no. of users of that command would be very less as previously 
pointed by someone elsewhere.

--
Sivaraam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-31  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-17  6:01 What's cooking in git.git (May 2018, #02; Thu, 17) Junio C Hamano
2018-05-17  6:39 ` jk/branch-l-0-deprecation (was Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2018, #02; Thu, 17)) Kaartic Sivaraam
2018-05-17  9:48   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-17 11:00     ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2018-05-17 12:02       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-17 13:36     ` Jeff King
2018-05-24 15:10       ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2018-05-24 19:22         ` Jeff King
2018-05-24 19:31           ` [PATCH] branch: issue "-l" deprecation warning after pager starts Jeff King
2018-05-25  1:55             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-25  2:40               ` Jeff King
2018-05-25  8:56                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-25  9:14                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-25 17:10                     ` Jeff King
2018-05-26  2:37                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-25 21:00                     ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] usage: prefix all lines in `vreportf()`, not just the first Martin Ågren
2018-05-25 21:00                       ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] usage: extract `prefix_suffix_lines()` from `advise()` Martin Ågren
2018-05-28  8:27                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-28 18:40                         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-29 21:33                           ` Jeff King
2018-05-29 21:39                         ` Jeff King
2018-05-30  1:42                           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-30  6:00                             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-30 10:26                               ` Martin Ågren
2018-05-31  6:07                                 ` Jeff King
2018-05-25 21:00                       ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] usage: prefix all lines in `vreportf()`, not just the first Martin Ågren
2018-05-28  9:25                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-28 18:45                           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-28 21:45                             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-29  4:49                               ` Martin Ågren
2018-05-29  5:50                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-29 10:30                                   ` Martin Ågren
2018-05-29 12:08                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-29 15:50                                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-30 10:19                                   ` Martin Ågren
2018-05-29 21:32                           ` Jeff King
2018-05-30 10:20                             ` Martin Ågren
2018-05-25 21:00                       ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] usage: translate the "error: "-prefix and others Martin Ågren
2018-05-26  2:32                   ` [PATCH] branch: issue "-l" deprecation warning after pager starts Junio C Hamano
2018-05-26  2:33                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-29 21:20                     ` Jeff King
2018-05-29 21:21                       ` Jeff King
2018-05-30  2:48                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-31  5:44                           ` Jeff King
2018-05-26 19:39                 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2018-06-02  4:46                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-02  8:10                   ` Jeff King
2018-05-26 18:45             ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2018-05-29 21:15               ` Jeff King
2018-05-30  2:52                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-31  5:51                   ` Jeff King
2018-06-01  1:35                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-31  5:52                   ` Kaartic.Sivaraam [this message]
2018-05-17 13:22 ` What's cooking in git.git (May 2018, #02; Thu, 17) Derrick Stolee
2018-05-17 18:20 ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 18:29   ` [PATCH 0/2] Reroll 2 last commits of sb/object-store-replace Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 18:29     ` [PATCH 1/2] object.c: free replace map in raw_object_store_clear Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 18:29     ` [PATCH 2/2] replace-object.c: remove the_repository from prepare_replace_object Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 18:40   ` [PATCH] merge-recursive: give notice when submodule commit gets fast-forwarded Stefan Beller
2018-05-18 19:43     ` [PATCH v2 0/1] rebased: inform about auto submodule ff Leif Middelschulte
2018-05-18 19:48     ` [PATCH v3 " Leif Middelschulte
2018-05-18 19:48       ` [PATCH 1/1] Inform about fast-forwarding of submodules during merge Leif Middelschulte
2018-05-18 21:25         ` Elijah Newren
2018-05-21  4:12           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-17 19:46   ` [PATCH 0/8] Reroll of sb/diff-color-move-more Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 19:46     ` [PATCH 1/8] xdiff/xdiff.h: remove unused flags Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 19:46     ` [PATCH 2/8] xdiff/xdiffi.c: remove unneeded function declarations Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 19:46     ` [PATCH 3/8] diff.c: do not pass diff options as keydata to hashmap Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 19:46     ` [PATCH 4/8] diff.c: adjust hash function signature to match hashmap expectation Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 19:46     ` [PATCH 5/8] diff.c: add a blocks mode for moved code detection Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 19:46     ` [PATCH 6/8] diff.c: decouple white space treatment from move detection algorithm Stefan Beller
2018-05-18  4:00       ` Simon Ruderich
2018-05-18 19:25         ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 19:46     ` [PATCH 7/8] diff.c: add --color-moved-ignore-space-delta option Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 19:46     ` [PATCH 8/8] diff: color-moved white space handling options imply color-moved Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 22:53     ` [PATCH 0/8] Reroll of sb/diff-color-move-more Jonathan Tan
2018-06-07 23:54     ` Jacob Keller
2018-05-17 22:36   ` What's cooking in git.git (May 2018, #02; Thu, 17) Junio C Hamano
2018-05-17 22:39     ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-17 22:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-17 22:58       ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-21  1:57 ` brian m. carlson
2018-05-21 17:36   ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-25 12:28 ` sb/submodule-move-nested breaks t7411 under GIT_FSMONITOR_TEST Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-25 17:27   ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-25 19:49   ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-06 12:31     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-06 16:57       ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-06 19:03         ` Ben Peart
2018-09-06 20:14           ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-06 20:34             ` [PATCH] git-mv: allow submodules and fsmonitor to work together Stefan Beller
2018-09-10 15:58               ` Ben Peart
2018-09-10 16:29                 ` [PATCH v1] " Ben Peart
2018-09-10 17:07                   ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-10 19:38                     ` Ben Peart

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