Re: On interpret-trailers standalone tool

2014-04-16 Thread Christian Couder
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Christian Couder chrisc...@tuxfamily.org writes: Yeah, except that we could add for example a '-o' option that would take a directory as argument and that would mean that the command should operate on all the files in

Re: On interpret-trailers standalone tool

2014-04-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: ... I am looking at this more from the angle of obtaining a useful building block, while you seem to be thinking of this as a specialized tool for a narrow set of specifkc tasks. By the way, I am speaking with a bitter experience of designing the

Re: On interpret-trailers standalone tool

2014-04-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: ... I am being cautious here because I do not see us making the same mistake. s/do not/ want to/ Sorry for the noise. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo

Re: On interpret-trailers standalone tool

2014-04-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Christian Couder chrisc...@tuxfamily.org writes: However, I am wondering if the current everything on the command line is instruction to the command is too limiting to allow the use of the tool both as a filter and as a tool that can work on one or more files named on the command line. If we

Re: On interpret-trailers standalone tool

2014-04-12 Thread Christian Couder
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com So far I've mostly been ignoring how the command line would look like, I don't really feel this way ;-) because the intermediate goal to my mind was to have it as a hook that are added by people better versed with Git than an average end-user, and if

On interpret-trailers standalone tool

2014-04-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
So far I've mostly been ignoring how the command line would look like, because the intermediate goal to my mind was to have it as a hook that are added by people better versed with Git than an average end-user, and if the command line interface had to change then they are capable of updating it,