On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Charles Bailey <char...@hashpling.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:22:47PM +0530, karthik nayak wrote:
>> On 04/20/2015 02:49 PM, Charles Bailey wrote:
>> >As far as I could tell - and please correct me if I've misunderstood,
>> >cat-file's literally is about dealing with unrecognized types whereas
>> >hash-object's --literally is about both creating objects with bad types
>> >and invalid objects of "recognized" types. This latter scenario is where
>> >the option name "literally" makes the most sense.
>> Yes. What you're saying is correct, but it also makes sense as we're asking
>> "cat-file" to give us information about the object irrespective of the type
>> of the
>> object, hence asking it to literally print the information. Also it stays as
>> a compliment
>> to "hash-object --literally", which is already existing.
>
> OK, I think you've hit the main point which I was trying to make.
>
> To me, "literally" means "without transformation" or "exactly as
> written/recorded/transmitted" (which -t/-s do anyway) and doesn't really
> encompass the "irrespective of type" meaning that it has been given here.
>
> In any case, I've made my point so I won't labour it any further. I
> think that --no-validation or --allow-any-type might be more accurate
> but if everyone else is happy enough with --literally then I'm happy to
> live with that too.
It's easy to be blinded into thinking that cat-file's new option
should be named --literally since it was inspired by the --literally
option of hash-object, but indeed it may not be the best choice.
In addition to your above suggestions (and --unchecked which you
proposed earlier), if we take inspiration from existing Git options,
perhaps one of the following (or something derived from them) would be
better?
--force
--ignore-errors
--no-check
--unsafe
--no-strict
--aggressive
Or, some pure made-up bike-shedding?
--try-harder
--allow-bogus-type
--ignore-bogus-type
--loose
--gently
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