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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>,
	Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Brian M . Carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] rev-parse: match ^{<type>} case-insensitively
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:33:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACBZZX78ppO5M5oGEDxoHxs5VtXpLRf9ivNxmT7bGw_5aQa8qA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170327025818.pbm4nwqrfolyto7g@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 4:58 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 05:36:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> It's not "potential confusion".  This closes the door for us to
>> introduce "TREE" as a separate object type in the future.
>>
>> If we agree to make a declaration that all typenames are officially
>> spelled in lowercase [*1*] and at the UI level we accept typenames
>> spelled in any case, then we can adopt this change (and then we need
>> to update "cat-file -t" etc. to match it).
>>
>> I do not at all mind to see if the list concensus is to make such a
>> declaration and permanently close the door for typenames that are
>> not lowercase, and after seeing such a concensus I'd gladly
>> appreciate this patch, but I do not want to see a change like this
>> that decides the future of the system, pretending as an innocuous
>> change, sneaked in without making sure that everybody is aware of
>> its implications.
>
> FWIW, I cannot see us ever adding TREE (or Tree) as a separate type.
> It's too confusing for no gain. We'd call it "tree2" or something more
> obvious.
>
> So I don't mind closing that door, but I'm not sure if a partial
> conversion (where some commands are case-insensitive but others aren't
> yet) might not leave us in a more confusing place.
>
> I dunno. I guess I have never wanted to type "^{Tree}" in the first
> place, so I do not personally see the _benefit_. Which makes it easy to
> see even small negatives as a net loss.

I don't either, I think this patch should just be dropped.

As noted in the cover letter[1] I carved this off from the rest of the
series just in case anyone wanted this, either now or in the future.

I originally implemented this for consistency with @{U} because it's
another thing that can be made case-insensitive unambiguously as far
as the rev-parse syntax is concerned, but as you/Junio note here the
tree/blob/object etc. names exist in a lot more places, so just making
this particular thing case insensitive wouldn't make sense, and has
little benefit.

1. <20170326121654.22035-1-avarab@gmail.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-27  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-18 22:34 [PATCH] rev-parse: match @{u}, @{push} and ^{<type>} case-insensitively Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-19  9:19 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-03-19 10:04   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-19 12:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-19 14:26   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-19 22:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-26 12:16       ` [PATCH v2 0/3] rev-parse case insensitivity & @{p} synonym Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-26 12:16       ` [PATCH v2 1/3] rev-parse: match @{upstream}, @{u} and @{push} case-insensitively Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-27  0:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-27 11:16           ` [PATCH v3] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-27 17:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-27 18:05               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-26 12:16       ` [PATCH v2 2/3] rev-parse: add @{p} as a synonym for @{push} Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-27  2:53         ` Jeff King
2017-03-27  7:52           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-26 12:16       ` [PATCH v2 3/3] rev-parse: match ^{<type>} case-insensitively Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-27  0:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-27  2:58           ` Jeff King
2017-03-27  5:39             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-27  7:11               ` Jeff King
2017-03-27  7:33             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2017-03-21 19:19 ` [PATCH] rev-parse: match @{u}, @{push} and " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-03-21 19:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 19:43   ` Jeff King

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