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From: Charvi Mendiratta <charvi077@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] commit: add amend suboption to --fixup to create amend! commit
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:26:58 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPSFM5fhaG1fgv30FvOSL-tfpuPiePFYoax_78dvs4Mh8H9tgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqczwmsjzl.fsf@gitster.g>

On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 01:02, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
[...]
> > yes, those options are caught earlier and give the error as below:
> > "Only one of -c/-C/-F/--fixup can be used."
> > and only `-m` is checked over here.
>
> And the reason why -m cannot be checked early is because we do not
> recognize which kind of "fixup" we are doing when "only one of
> -c/-C/-F/--fixup" check is made before this function is called?
>
> OK.  I wonder if we can tell which kind of fixup we are doing much
> earlier, though.  Then we could extend it to say "Only one of
> -c/-C/-F/-m/--fixup=amend:<commit> can be used", etc., and we do not
> have to have this "only -m is checked here, everything else is
> checked earlier" curiosity.  But I do not know if such a change is
> necessarily an improvement.  I guess a better "fix" would probably
> be to add a comment to this function where it only checks for "-m"
> and tell readers why -c/-C/-F do not have to be checked here.
>

I agree, earlier I even asked myself why only `-m`, but this was the
only option that was allowing to write/append commit message in `
--fixup`. And I agree to add a comment, to make it more clear.

Thanks and Regards,
Charvi

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-27  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-17  7:29 [PATCH 0/6][Outreachy] commit: Implementation of "amend!" commit Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-17  7:37 ` [PATCH 1/6] sequencer: export subject_length() Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-17  7:37   ` [PATCH 2/6] commit: add amend suboption to --fixup to create amend! commit Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-17 19:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18 10:13       ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-18 19:18         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18 20:37           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-19  6:10             ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-19  6:09           ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-20  3:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-21  6:35               ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-21  7:05                 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-21  9:20                   ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-22 17:35                     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-23  6:05                       ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-17  7:37   ` [PATCH 3/6] commit: add a reword suboption to --fixup Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-17 19:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18 10:14       ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-17  7:37   ` [PATCH 4/6] t7500: add tests for --fixup[amend|reword] options Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-17 19:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18 10:15       ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-18 19:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-19  6:10           ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-17  7:37   ` [PATCH 5/6] t3437: use --fixup with options to create amend! commit Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-17  7:37   ` [PATCH 6/6] doc/git-commit: add documentation for fixup[amend|reword] options Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-18 19:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-19  6:09       ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-23 19:55 ` [PATCH 0/6][Outreachy] commit: Implementation of "amend!" commit Junio C Hamano
2021-02-24  5:54   ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-25 10:08 ` [PATCH v2 " Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-25 10:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] sequencer: export subject_length() Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-25 10:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] commit: add amend suboption to --fixup to create amend! commit Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-25 21:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-26 10:38     ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-26 19:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-27  4:56         ` Charvi Mendiratta [this message]
2021-02-25 10:08 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] commit: add a reword suboption to --fixup Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-25 20:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-26 10:35     ` Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-25 10:09 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] t7500: add tests for --fixup=[amend|reword] options Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-25 10:09 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] t3437: use --fixup with options to create amend! commit Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-25 10:09 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] doc/git-commit: add documentation for fixup=[amend|reword] options Charvi Mendiratta
2021-02-25 20:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-26 10:36     ` Charvi Mendiratta

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