Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> It is probably be less confusing to use "missing" and let frontends
> handle that rather shielding the frontend from reality. Like so:
^
This should say "rather than", as in: "It is confusing to lie to the
frontend; let's not do that."
Side note: this adds some complication to frontends. For example,
to copy some/path from the commit called :5, without this change,
one could do
echo 'ls :5 some/path'
read -r mode type dataref path
echo "M $mode $dataref $path"
but now one would have to do:
echo 'ls :5 some/path'
read -r mode rest
case $mode in
missing)
echo "D some/path"
;;
*)
dataref=${rest#* }
echo "M $mode $dataref some/path"
;;
esac
The former is simpler; the latter is more explicit and probably less
confusing.
Sorry for the nonsense.
Jonathan
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