On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:25:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Christian Couder <christian.cou...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Christian Couder <christian.cou...@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> "Making sure A's parent is B" would be an
> >>>>> idempotent operation, no?  Why not just make sure A's parent is
> >>>>> already B and report "Your wish has been granted" to the user?
> >>>
> >>> ... and here you say we should report "your wish has been granted"...
> >>
> >> Normal way for "git replace" to report that is to exit with status 0
> >> and without any noise, I would think.
> >
> > In a similar case "git replace --edit" we error out instead of just
> > exiting (with status 0), see:
> >
> > f22166b5fee7dc (replace: make sure --edit results in a different object)
> 
> I do not care *too* deeply, but if you ask me, that may be a mistake
> we may want to fix before the next release.

Yeah, I also do not care too deeply, but I mentioned in the earlier
review that I would expect it to just remove the replacement if it ends
up generating the same object.

-Peff
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