From: greened@obbligato.org
To: James Nylen <jnylen@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:44:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v7lfvz7.fsf@waller.obbligato.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABVa4NhK3FR-NsTq6Vt6yrgneQmMxF5ANmN6pF8k3fHeOLd0JA@mail.gmail.com> (James Nylen's message of "Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:07:05 -0500")
James Nylen <jnylen@gmail.com> writes:
> I just now saw these emails. I'm having a hard time thinking of any
> good use case other than:
>
> - add "fancylib" as a subtree of "myprog"
> - commit to myprog repo: "fancylib: don't crash as much"
> - split these commits back out to fancylib's main repo, and remove
> the "fancylib: " prefix
That does seem to me to be the common case, at least.
> You could potentially have something like "Don't crash as much
> (fancylib)" but that's awkward. What might you want to do with a
> pattern-based rewrite that doesn't involve removing a prefix when
> splitting commits?
I'm not really sure. I've never used --annotate in my own work.
> In fact, I don't see the use of the original --annotate option at all,
> since it causes more detailed commit messages in the smaller of the
> two repositories.
I'll have to look back through Avery's logs and see if I can puzzle out
why this was added. If it's not useful, perhaps we can remove it before
migrating to mainline.
Junio, is there a policy for backward-compatability in contrib? I hope
that since that directory is for stuff not yet in mainline, there is
some room to massage the user interface.
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-22 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-01 3:57 git-subtree Patches to Apply David A. Greene
2013-01-01 3:57 ` [PATCH 1/8] Use %B for Split Subject/Body David A. Greene
2013-01-01 4:06 ` greened
2013-01-01 5:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 22:25 ` greened
2013-01-01 5:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 22:24 ` greened
[not found] ` <CAPYzjrTqmzuWoDg+zvLxwB7g6J4J2wbBqpL+UbHKRHcbjA4HrA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-07 15:00 ` 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)
2013-01-07 15:18 ` 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)
2013-01-07 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 22:29 ` greened
2013-01-02 0:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-08 10:40 ` greened
2013-01-01 3:57 ` [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate David A. Greene
2013-01-01 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 22:31 ` greened
2013-01-02 0:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-08 10:42 ` greened
2013-01-17 21:07 ` James Nylen
2013-01-22 8:44 ` greened [this message]
2013-01-22 16:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 3:57 ` [PATCH 3/8] Better Error Handling for add David A. Greene
2013-01-01 21:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 22:33 ` greened
2013-01-02 2:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 3:57 ` [PATCH 4/8] Fix Synopsis David A. Greene
2013-01-01 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 22:35 ` greened
2013-01-01 3:57 ` [PATCH 5/8] Honor DESTDIR David A. Greene
2013-01-01 21:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 22:36 ` greened
2013-01-01 3:57 ` [PATCH 6/8] Make the Manual Directory if Needed David A. Greene
2013-01-01 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 22:37 ` greened
2013-01-01 3:57 ` [PATCH 7/8] Ignore git-subtree David A. Greene
2013-01-01 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-01 3:57 ` [PATCH 8/8] Fix Documentation Typo David A. Greene
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