Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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. >>> Why would it be simpler for the user to get an error, inspect the >>> situation and realize that his wish has been granted after all? > > ... but for me reporting to the user "your wish has been granted" and > warning (or errorring out) saying "the new commit would be the same as > the old one" are nearly the same thing. > > So I wonder what exactly you are not happy with. See above. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html