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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Cc: avarab@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, jrnieder@gmail.com,
	sandals@crustytoothpaste.net, sunshine@sunshineco.com,
	xypron.glpk@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] send-email: do defaults -> config -> getopt in that order
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 08:13:15 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh89u3sdw.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5cddeb61.1c69fb81.47ed4.e648@mx.google.com> (Stephen Boyd's message of "Thu, 16 May 2019 15:59:44 -0700")

Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> writes:

>> As can be seen in this change the only place where we actually want to
>> do something clever is with the to/cc/bcc variables, where setting
>> them on the command-line (or using --no-{to,cc,bcc}) should clear out
>> values we grab from the config.
>> 
>> All the rest are things where the command-line should simply override
>> the config values, and by reading the config first the config code
>> doesn't need all this "let's not set it was on the command-line"
>> special-casing, as [1] shows we'd otherwise need to care about the
>> difference between whether something was a default or present in
>> config to fix the bug in e67a228cd8.
>
> This broke my workflow.
>
> I specify --identity=<account> on the commandline and I want that to
> pick out my send-email config from my global .gitconfig file that
> corresponds to that identity. With this change, the config is parsed
> before the getopt part so --identity on the commandline is a nop and
> never looks into the config file to figure this out. So at least
> --identity is special in addition to --to,cc,bcc.

Ah, sorry that nobody noticed that case, but you are right.  Because
the ident is used as a part of the key to find identity-specific
configuration values, if the command line gives one, we must have an
access to it before we start reading the configuration.  In that sense,
it is more fundamental to special-case the option.

We are past -rc0, so I am inclined to revert the change (and perhaps
replace it with the other "fix" that did not break the parsing order
like these patches did), with an expectation that a clever fix will
be found later, *unless* a simple and correct fix is found quickly.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-09 19:27 [PATCH 1/1] send-email: fix transferencoding config option Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-09 21:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-04-09 23:39   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-10  3:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-10 20:40     ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-10 22:42       ` brian m. carlson
2019-05-08  8:18     ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08  8:20       ` [PATCH 2/2] send-email: honor transferencoding config option again Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 10:13       ` Re* [PATCH 1/1] send-email: fix transferencoding config option Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 10:56         ` [PATCH v2 0/2] send-email: set xfer encoding correctly Junio C Hamano
2019-05-09 11:48           ` [PATCH v3 0/3] send-email: fix cli->config parsing crazyness Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-10 13:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-09 11:48           ` [PATCH v3 1/3] send-email: move the read_config() function above getopts Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-09 11:48           ` [PATCH v3 2/3] send-email: rename the @bcclist variable for consistency Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-09 11:48           ` [PATCH v3 3/3] send-email: do defaults -> config -> getopt in that order Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-09 18:04             ` Eric Sunshine
2019-05-13  8:46               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-09 23:51             ` brian m. carlson
2019-05-13  8:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-13 21:13               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-16 22:59             ` Stephen Boyd
2019-05-16 23:13               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-05-17  3:43                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 0/5] ab/send-email-transferencoding-fix-for-the-fix Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 1/5] send-email: remove cargo-culted multi-patch pattern in tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 2/5] send-email: fix broken transferEncoding tests Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 3/5] send-email: document --no-[to|cc|bcc] Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 4/5] send-email: fix regression in sendemail.identity parsing Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-19  1:29                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-22 20:25                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-29  9:10                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-17 19:55                   ` [PATCH 5/5] send-email: remove support for deprecated sendemail.smtpssl Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-08 10:56         ` [PATCH v2 1/2] send-email: update the mechanism to set default configuration values Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 10:56         ` [PATCH v2 2/2] send-email: honor transferencoding config option again Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 21:24           ` Eric Sunshine
2019-05-09  6:47             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-08 23:12           ` brian m. carlson
2019-04-09 22:55 ` [PATCH 1/1] send-email: fix transferencoding config option brian m. carlson
2019-04-09 23:06   ` Heinrich Schuchardt

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