On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. 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) -- 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