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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gustavo Leite <gustavoleite.ti@gmail.com>,
	Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] add -p: allow line selection to be inverted
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:32:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsh942ayf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea4f645f-5cf2-ef84-24cf-fb585f96039d@talktalk.net> (Phillip Wood's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:06:11 +0000")

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:

> On 08/03/18 17:53, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@talktalk.net> writes:
>> 
>>> and use a leading '-' for inversion. I'm tempted to keep supporting 'n-'
>>> to mean everything from 'n' to the last line though.
>> 
>> Thanks for double checking.  It would be a better endgame to follow
>> up with an update to existing "range selection" code to also support
>> "n-", if you go that route.
>> 
> I'm afraid I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting. At the moment
> the range selection code is in the first patch and supports incomplete
> ranges. Are you suggesting that support for incomplete ranges should be
> in a separate patch or have I misunderstood?

My observation of the situation behind my reasoning is:

 - There is an existing UI that uses "-X" to mean "exclude what
   matches X" and that was the reason why you decided to follow suit
   instead of using "^X" for inversion of X.

 - Such an existing UI would not have used "-X" to mean "the first
   possible choice thru X".  You will lose that from your new thing
   and you accepted that.

 - It is likely (I did not check, though) that the existing UI would
   not have used "Y-" to mean "starting from Y all the possible
   choices thru to the end", but that is merely for symmetry with
   the lack (inability to use) of "-X".  There is no fundamental
   reason why "Y-" cannot mean that, and you are tempted to allow do
   so in your new thing for the same reason.

So if we are going to have "N-" to mean "everything from N to the
last line", then the same "Starting at N to the end of the all the
possible choices" should be allowed in the existing UI (i.e. the one
that forced you to give up "^X" for the sake of consistency) for the
same consistency reasons, no?

For that, if you want to keep the "n-" you did in your first patch,
the most logical thing is to have a preparatory enhancement to teach
"N-" to list_and_choose(), and then build your series on top.  Or
you can do without such a change to list_and_choose() in your series,
in which case, you drop "n-" support and then at the very end after
the series settles, add "n-" support to the new code in this series
and to list_and_choose() at the same time in a follow-up patch.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-13 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-19 11:36 [PATCH v1 0/3] add -p: select individual hunk lines Phillip Wood
2018-02-19 11:36 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] " Phillip Wood
2018-02-19 11:36 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] add -p: allow line selection to be inverted Phillip Wood
2018-02-19 11:36 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] add -p: optimize line selection for short hunks Phillip Wood
2018-02-19 12:20 ` [PATCH v1 0/3] add -p: select individual hunk lines Gustavo Leite
2018-03-06 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 " Phillip Wood
2018-03-06 10:17   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Phillip Wood
2018-03-06 20:29     ` Igor Djordjevic
2018-03-06 21:33       ` Igor Djordjevic
2018-03-06 10:17   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] add -p: allow line selection to be inverted Phillip Wood
2018-03-06 19:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-08 11:05       ` Phillip Wood
2018-03-08 17:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-13 12:06           ` Phillip Wood
2018-03-13 16:32             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-03-14 11:02               ` Phillip Wood
2018-03-06 20:41     ` Igor Djordjevic
2018-03-06 10:17   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] add -p: optimize line selection for short hunks Phillip Wood
2018-03-06 20:33     ` Igor Djordjevic
2018-03-06 20:19   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] add -p: select individual hunk lines Igor Djordjevic
2018-03-06 21:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-06 21:20       ` Igor Djordjevic
2018-03-16 10:13 ` [PATCH v3 " Phillip Wood
2018-03-16 10:13   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Phillip Wood
2018-03-16 10:13   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] add -p: allow line selection to be inverted Phillip Wood
2018-03-16 10:13   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] add -p: optimize line selection for short hunks Phillip Wood
2018-03-29 18:32   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] add -p: select individual hunk lines Junio C Hamano
2018-03-30 11:09     ` Phillip Wood
2018-03-31 19:20       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-04-02 10:55         ` Phillip Wood
2018-04-02 11:39           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-26 10:22 ` [RFC PATCH v4 0/4] " Phillip Wood
2018-07-26 10:22   ` [PATCH v4 1/4] " Phillip Wood
2018-07-26 10:22   ` [RFC PATCH v4 2/4] add -p: select modified lines correctly Phillip Wood
2018-07-26 10:22   ` [PATCH v4 3/4] add -p: allow line selection to be inverted Phillip Wood
2018-07-26 10:22   ` [PATCH v4 4/4] add -p: optimize line selection for short hunks Phillip Wood
2018-07-26 15:58 ` [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] add -p: select individual hunk lines Phillip Wood
2018-07-26 15:58   ` [PATCH v5 1/4] " Phillip Wood
2018-07-26 19:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-27 10:05       ` Phillip Wood
2018-07-27 16:09         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-26 15:58   ` [RFC PATCH v5 2/4] add -p: select modified lines correctly Phillip Wood
2018-07-26 19:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-27 10:19       ` Phillip Wood
2018-07-27 16:14         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-26 15:58   ` [PATCH v5 3/4] add -p: allow line selection to be inverted Phillip Wood
2018-07-26 15:58   ` [PATCH v5 4/4] add -p: optimize line selection for short hunks Phillip Wood
2018-07-27 18:27   ` [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] add -p: select individual hunk lines Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-28 10:08     ` Phillip Wood
2018-07-28 12:40   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-08-03 10:01     ` Phillip Wood
2018-08-03 16:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-03 17:59       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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