On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:08 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 6:43 PM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Error out for now instead of potentially confusing the user.
>> As 5453b83bdf (send-email: --batch-size to work around some SMTP
>> server limit, 2017-05-21) lays out, we rather want to not have this
>> interface anyway and would rather want to react on the server throttling
>> dynamically.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
>> @@ -379,6 +379,9 @@ unless ($rc) {
>> +die __("When a batch size is given, the relogin delay must be set\n")
>> + if defined $relogin_delay and not defined $batch_size;
>
> This only makes sense is 'batch-size' is specified but not 'relogin'.
> If the other way around, then the error is confusing. How about this
> instead?
>
> "--batch-size and --relogin must be specified together"
>
> ...or something.
I like this for its expressiveness as it would have helped me a lot.
I dislike this because it is incorrect when you use the config options
instead of command line arguments.
Stefan
