From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, vdye@github.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] maintenance: add 'unregister --force'
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:17:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbkr2ndxv.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22a767da-5ae0-5a8f-d5f4-f2c5cc217be4@github.com> (Derrick Stolee's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:25:51 -0400")
Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> writes:
> On 9/26/2022 11:39 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 26 2022, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/23/2022 9:08 AM, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 01:37:16PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
>>>>> static int maintenance_unregister(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>>>> {
>>>>> + int force = 0;
>>>>> struct option options[] = {
>>>>> + OPT_BOOL(0, "force", &force,
>>>>> + N_("return success even if repository was not registered")),
>>>>
>>>> This could be shortened a bit by using OPT__FORCE() instead of
>>>> OPT_BOOL(). OTOH, please make it a bit longer, and declare the option
>>>> with the PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE flag to hide it from completion:
>>>
>>> Looks like I can do both like this:
>>>
>>> OPT__FORCE(&force,
>>> N_("return success even if repository was not registered"),
>>> PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE),
>>
>> I don't think PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE is appropriate here. Yes we use it
>> for most of --force, but in some non-destructive cases (e.g. "add") we
>> don't.
>>
>> This seems to be such a case, we'll destroy no data or do anything
>> irrecoverable. It's really just a
>> --do-not-be-so-anal-about-your-exit-code option.
>
> I agree, so I wasn't completely sold on PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE. I'll use
> your vote to not add that option.
I am perfectly OK with that. Given that "git reset --hard" is not
given nocomplete option, I do not see much point in "destructive
ones are not completed" guideline in practice anyway. After all,
"add --force" would be destructively removing the object name
recorded for the path previously.
Thanks for carefully thinking the UI remifications through.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-26 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-20 1:02 [PATCH] maintenance: make unregister idempotent Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-21 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-22 12:37 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-22 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-22 19:46 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-22 20:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] scalar: " Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] maintenance: add 'unregister --force' Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-23 13:08 ` SZEDER Gábor
2022-09-26 13:32 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-26 15:39 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-26 17:25 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-26 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-09-22 13:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] scalar: make 'unregister' idempotent Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-26 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] scalar: make unregister idempotent Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-26 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] maintenance: add 'unregister --force' Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-26 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-26 20:49 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-26 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-27 11:38 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-27 11:54 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-27 13:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-27 13:55 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-09-26 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] scalar: make 'unregister' idempotent Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-26 18:48 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] gc: replace config subprocesses with API calls Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-26 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-27 13:56 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] scalar: make unregister idempotent Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-27 13:56 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] maintenance: add 'unregister --force' Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-27 13:56 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] scalar: make 'unregister' idempotent Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-27 13:57 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] gc: replace config subprocesses with API calls Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-27 13:57 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] string-list: document iterator behavior on NULL input Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2022-09-27 16:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-27 16:31 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] scalar: make unregister idempotent Junio C Hamano
2022-09-27 16:54 ` Derrick Stolee
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