From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2018, #02; Mon, 6)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 02:30:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRGVaJqP7XFzb9RQDqr543auoawMUmkynXar-paTeL9BQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRoxiPUhXFA2vdZWh0iLfitFeN5CbUDduJuRZ0JGw=fvA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 11:47 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 6:36 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > * pw/rebase-i-author-script-fix (2018-08-02) 2 commits
> > - sequencer: fix quoting in write_author_script
> > - sequencer: handle errors in read_author_ident()
> > (this branch uses es/rebase-i-author-script-fix.)
> >
> > Undecided.
> > Is it the list consensus to favor this "with extra code, read the
> > script written by bad writer" approach?
>
> Phillip's original "effectively one-liner" backward compatibility[1]
> seemed a reasonable compromise[2] between the choices of no backward
> compatibility and heavyweight backward compatibility of his
> re-roll[3]. His reference[4] to an earlier "one-liner" backward
> compatibility solution given similar circumstances bolstered the case
> for his original approach.
To summarize, I think Phillip is planning to re-roll, going with the
simpler backward-compatibility (though he was waiting an "okay" from
you[2]).
[2]: https://public-inbox.org/git/455fafb5-3c92-4348-0c2c-0a4ab62cf2ce@talktalk.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-07 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-06 22:35 What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2018, #02; Mon, 6) Junio C Hamano
2018-08-07 3:47 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-07 6:30 ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2018-08-07 6:21 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-07 14:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-07 14:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-08 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
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