Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate

2013-01-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
gree...@obbligato.org writes: > Junio, is there a policy for backward-compatability in contrib? I hope > that since that directory is for stuff not yet in mainline, there is > some room to massage the user interface. I do not think there is anything more than "we wish there were fewer such end-u

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate

2013-01-22 Thread greened
James Nylen writes: > I just now saw these emails. I'm having a hard time thinking of any > good use case other than: > > - add "fancylib" as a subtree of "myprog" > - commit to myprog repo: "fancylib: don't crash as much" > - split these commits back out to fancylib's main repo, and remove >

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate

2013-01-17 Thread James Nylen
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:31 PM, wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> "David A. Greene" writes: >> >>> From: James Nylen >>> >>> Teach git-subtree about --unannotate. This option strips a prefix >>> from a commit message when doing a subtree split. >> >> Hrm. This looks like a workaround for

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate

2013-01-08 Thread greened
Junio C Hamano writes: > gree...@obbligato.org writes: > >> In the meantime, will you apply the patch or do you prefer a new design? > > The --unannotate option will become a baggage you will have to keep > working until the end of time, if we applied it. I think it is not > too uch a baggage, s

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate

2013-01-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
gree...@obbligato.org writes: > In the meantime, will you apply the patch or do you prefer a new design? The --unannotate option will become a baggage you will have to keep working until the end of time, if we applied it. I think it is not too uch a baggage, so it probably is OK. -- To unsubsc

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate

2013-01-01 Thread greened
Junio C Hamano writes: > "David A. Greene" writes: > >> From: James Nylen >> >> Teach git-subtree about --unannotate. This option strips a prefix >> from a commit message when doing a subtree split. > > Hrm. This looks like a workaround for a short-sighted misdesign of > the annotate option t

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate

2013-01-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
"David A. Greene" writes: > From: James Nylen > > Teach git-subtree about --unannotate. This option strips a prefix > from a commit message when doing a subtree split. Hrm. This looks like a workaround for a short-sighted misdesign of the annotate option that only allowed prefixing a fixed st

[PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate

2012-12-31 Thread David A. Greene
From: James Nylen Teach git-subtree about --unannotate. This option strips a prefix from a commit message when doing a subtree split. Author:James Nylen Signed-off-by: David A. Greene --- contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh | 11 +- contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt| 15 +++