On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
>
>>> + if test -n "$deinit_all" && test "$#" -ne 0
>>> + then
>>> + die "$(eval_gettext "usage: $dashless [--quiet] deinit
>>> [-f|--force] (--all | [--] <path>...)")"
>>
>> I doubt that "usage:" wants to go thru l10n.
>>
>> I suspect that it is more friendly to the user to say that in prose,
>> i.e.e.g. "--all and pathspec cannot be given at the same time", than
>> forcing them to grok the (alternative|possibilities).
>>
>>> + fi
>>> + if test $# = 0 && test -z "$deinit_all"
>>> then
>>> - die "$(eval_gettext "Use '.' if you really want to
>>> deinitialize all submodules")"
>>> + die "$(eval_gettext "Use '--all' if you really want to
>>> deinitialize all submodules")"
>>> fi
>>
>> This is good.
>
> By the way, while it is a very good idea to die upon
>
> $ git submodule deinit --all no-only-this-one
>
> it may not be too bad if we demoted the output to "info" with clean
> no-op exit when the user said
>
> $ git submodule deinit
>
> IOW, the latter part _might_ be better if it were
>
> if test $# = 0 && test -z "$deinit_all"
> then
> echo >&2 "info: not deinitializing anything."
> echo >&2 "info: Use --all to deinitialize all submodules."
> exit 0
> fi
>
> given that this is really about preventing mistakes from doing mass
> destruction.
Demote to a new class in a class of its own?
* grep -r "info:" gives no match for user facing code, so it's a
prefix you made up now.
* I assume we want to translate it?
* This would not respect the --quiet option?
* returning 0 as in "everyting is fine", while nothing is fine.
There are two cases:
- Either the user knows what they are doing (See Per complaining
about this)
A very deliberate "I want it all gone or error out if you
cannot remove it all"
- The user has no idea what they are doing. Exiting non zero
doesn't do any harm.
Maybe:
> - die "$(eval_gettext "Use '.' if you really want to deinitialize
> all submodules")"
> + usage()
instead?
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