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

2013-01-22 Thread greened
James Nylen jny...@gmail.com 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

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-user

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

2013-01-17 Thread James Nylen
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:31 PM, gree...@obbligato.org wrote: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: David A. Greene gree...@obbligato.org writes: From: James Nylen jny...@gmail.com Teach git-subtree about --unannotate. This option strips a prefix from a commit message when doing a

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

2013-01-08 Thread greened
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com 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

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

2013-01-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
David A. Greene gree...@obbligato.org writes: From: James Nylen jny...@gmail.com 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

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

2013-01-01 Thread greened
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: David A. Greene gree...@obbligato.org writes: From: James Nylen jny...@gmail.com 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

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

[PATCH 2/8] Add --unannotate

2012-12-31 Thread David A. Greene
From: James Nylen jny...@gmail.com Teach git-subtree about --unannotate. This option strips a prefix from a commit message when doing a subtree split. Author:James Nylen jny...@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David A. Greene gree...@obbligato.org --- contrib/subtree/git-subtree.sh | 11