From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>,
Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] revert: rename --reset option to --quit
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:35:33 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bos5m7ez.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpqglfc1k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The option to "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" to discard the
> > sequencer state introduced by v1.7.8-rc0~141^2~6 (revert: Introduce
> > --reset to remove sequencer state, 2011-08-04) has a confusing name.
> > Change it now, while we still have the time.
> >
> > Mechanics:
> >
> > This commit removes the "git cherry-pick --reset" option. Hopefully
> > nobody was using it. If somebody was, we can add it back again as a
> > synonym.
> >
> > The new name for "cherry-pick, please get out of my way, since I've
> > long forgotten about the sequence of commits I was cherry-picking when
> > you wrote that old .git/sequencer directory" is --quit.
>
> Wouldn't it match other commands better if we called this --abort instead
> of --quit?
Actually from what I understand --reset / --quit has to have different
meaning than --abort. While for multi-commit operation --abort goes back
to the state before last operation, --reset / --quit just clears sequencer
state, but does not change working area, nor index, not HEAD. This is to
be used when encounering stale old rebase / am / cherry-pick / revert.
BTW. I think that '--clear' (or '--clear-state') would be a better name
for this option.
> Other than that I think I agree with the reasoning (and I think I too had
> encountered the irritation with the "sequencer state").
--
Jakub Narębski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-21 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-20 7:30 cherry-pick/revert error messages Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-20 8:02 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-11-20 9:46 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] " Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-20 9:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] revert: rename --reset option to --quit Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-21 20:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-21 22:35 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-11-21 22:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-20 9:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] revert: rearrange pick_revisions() for clarity Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-20 9:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] revert: improve error message for cherry-pick during cherry-pick Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-22 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Re: cherry-pick/revert error messages Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-22 11:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] revert: rename --reset option to --quit Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-22 11:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] revert: rearrange pick_revisions() for clarity Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-22 11:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] revert: improve error message for cherry-pick during cherry-pick Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-22 11:17 ` [PATCH 4/3] revert: write REVERT_HEAD pseudoref during conflicted revert Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-22 21:40 ` Thiago Farina
2011-12-01 9:34 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-11-22 11:20 ` [PATCH 5/3] revert: introduce --abort to cancel a failed cherry-pick Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-23 0:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-23 1:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-23 8:49 ` [PATCH] Fix revert --abort on Windows Johannes Sixt
2011-11-23 10:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-23 10:21 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-10 12:46 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/7] some sequencer loose ends (Re: Fix revert --abort on Windows) Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-10 12:47 ` [PATCH 1/7] revert: give --continue handling its own function Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-14 13:16 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-12-10 12:49 ` [PATCH 2/7] revert: allow cherry-pick --continue to commit before resuming Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-14 14:26 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-12-14 16:48 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-10 12:58 ` [PATCH 3/7] revert: pass around rev-list args in already-parsed form Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-14 14:51 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-12-10 12:59 ` [PATCH 4/7] revert: allow single-pick in the middle of cherry-pick sequence Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-14 15:48 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-12-14 16:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-05 11:49 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2012-04-05 12:15 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-10 13:02 ` [PATCH 5/7] revert: do not remove state until sequence is finished Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-14 16:02 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-12-10 13:03 ` [PATCH 6/7] Revert "reset: Make reset remove the sequencer state" Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-14 16:06 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-12-10 13:06 ` [PATCH 7/7] revert: stop creating and removing sequencer-old directory Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-14 16:10 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-12-11 19:58 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/7] some sequencer loose ends (Re: Fix revert --abort on Windows) Jonathan Nieder
2011-12-12 8:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-14 9:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-23 17:23 ` [PATCH] Fix revert --abort on Windows Alex Riesen
2011-11-30 22:52 ` [PATCH 5/3] revert: introduce --abort to cancel a failed cherry-pick Junio C Hamano
2011-11-22 11:20 ` [PATCH 6/3] revert: remove --reset compatibility option Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-22 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-22 23:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-22 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-22 11:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Re: cherry-pick/revert error messages Jonathan Nieder
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