From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
"brian m . carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] squash! log,diff-tree: add --combined-all-paths option
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 22:48:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BHHjvC7tv27dBaUNuqXYdmhpbQXLadXTMFWR8GgKH_ngg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4l9ench8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 8:14 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > + for (i = 0; i < num_parent; i++) {
> > + switch (elem->parent[i].status) {
> > + case DIFF_STATUS_COPIED:
> > + dump_quoted_path("copy from ", "",
> > + elem->parent[i].path.buf,
> > + line_prefix, c_meta, c_reset);
> > + break;
> > + case DIFF_STATUS_RENAMED:
> > + dump_quoted_path("rename from ", "",
> > + elem->parent[i].path.buf,
> > + line_prefix, c_meta, c_reset);
> > + break;
> > + }
> > + }
>
> The explanation for this addition was that it is hard to tell from
> which side a rename happened in the three-dash lines alone:
>
> --- a/packages/search/ete/src/test/resources/test-suite.yml
> --- a/packages/search/src/geb/resources/test-suite.yml
> +++ b/packages/search/ete/src/test/resources/test-suite.yml
>
> and your hope was that adding:
>
> rename from packages/search/src/geb/resources/test-suite.yml
>
> would help especially when the path is overly long.
>
> But I am not sure if that single "rename from" is all that helpful.
> You cannot tell relative to which parent the rename happened without
> going back to the three-dash lines. A loop that iterates over all
> parents but shows only a line for a parent that actually had copy or
> rename loses "the line is talking about the change from this parent"
> which is a fairly important piece of information, doesn't it?
>
> If we attempt to clarify it by adding some more information on the
> line, e.g.
>
> rename relative to parent #1 from packages/search/src/geb/...
>
> the line gets even longer, and going back to look at
>
> --- a/packages/search/src/geb/resources/test-suite.yml
>
> may turn out to be an easier way to learn that information.
> So,... I dunno.
Yeah, fair enough. I'll drop the patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-08 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-24 16:46 [PATCH] log,diff-tree: add --combined-with-paths options for merges with renames Elijah Newren
2019-01-25 2:19 ` brian m. carlson
2019-01-25 16:27 ` Elijah Newren
2019-01-25 14:45 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-01-25 16:30 ` Elijah Newren
2019-01-25 16:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Elijah Newren
2019-01-25 17:40 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-01-25 17:52 ` Elijah Newren
2019-01-25 19:51 ` Eric Sunshine
2019-01-26 22:07 ` Elijah Newren
2019-01-27 1:52 ` brian m. carlson
2019-01-26 22:18 ` [PATCH v3] log,diff-tree: add --combined-all-names option Elijah Newren
2019-02-04 20:07 ` [PATCH v4] " Elijah Newren
2019-02-04 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-05 15:51 ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-05 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-07 19:50 ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-07 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-07 22:10 ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-07 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-07 23:48 ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-05 9:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-02-05 15:54 ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-05 18:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-07 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-07 23:48 ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-08 1:12 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] add --combined-all-paths option to log and diff-tree Elijah Newren
2019-02-08 1:12 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] log,diff-tree: add --combined-all-paths option Elijah Newren
2019-02-08 4:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-08 6:52 ` Elijah Newren
2019-02-08 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-08 1:12 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] squash! " Elijah Newren
2019-02-08 4:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-08 6:48 ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2019-01-25 19:29 ` [PATCH] log,diff-tree: add --combined-with-paths options for merges with renames Junio C Hamano
2019-01-25 20:04 ` Elijah Newren
2019-01-25 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-26 22:12 ` Elijah Newren
2019-01-28 0:19 ` Junio C Hamano
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