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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usage: clarify --recurse-submodules as a boolean
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:07:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpm8bcp50.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZDCwT3mhaGHyydng@google.com> (Emily Shaffer's message of "Fri, 7 Apr 2023 17:07:43 -0700")

Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com> writes:

> It was 'git checkout', if you must know ;) and in such a hurry that I
> also neglected to s/three/four/g. Will fix it with the reroll.

You fixed three-or-four but not the missing comma in v2, it seems.
I locally touched it up while queuing v2, but ...

>> This however is a breaking change.  Even though there is no hint
> ...
>> I am not
>> sure it is safe to change the behaviour right under them, like this
>> patch does, and I wonder if we should do this in two steps, with its
>> first step doing:
> ...
> I'd be happy to do so with a reroll, probably on Monday. It's true that
> while these are user-facing commands which we don't guarantee backwards
> compatibility for, there's not a reason to subject users to that kind of
> pain unnecessarily.

... I do not see how this part is addressed in v2.  You got too
excited by the idea of how to replace the awful abuse of parse
options callback interface with a more focused setter function in
the API and forgot to do other changes you meant to or something?

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-10 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-07 22:18 [PATCH] usage: clarify --recurse-submodules as a boolean Emily Shaffer
2023-04-07 23:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-08  0:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-08  0:22     ` Emily Shaffer
2023-04-08  0:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-10 16:41         ` Emily Shaffer
2023-04-08  0:07   ` Emily Shaffer
2023-04-10 23:07     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-04-10 22:52 ` [PATCH v2] " Emily Shaffer
2023-04-10 23:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-05-05 17:30     ` Junio C Hamano

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