On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Am 29.02.2016 um 22:19 schrieb Junio C Hamano: >>> Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> Maybe we want to remove the struct child_process from the >>>> function signature of the callbacks and callbacks need to rely on >>>> the data provided solely thru the pointer as passed around for >>>> callback purposes, which the user is free to use for any kind >>>> of data. >>> >>> I think that is the most sensible. >> >> I also think that is the better approach. Dumping out the argv array >> is not the best end-user experience. It is just a debugging aid, and >> for that we have (or should extend if necessary) GIT_TRACE >> infrastructure. Moreover, a command that failed should have printed >> error messages, and it is not necessary to follow it up with another >> "A child process exited with code N" message. > > Exactly. Stefan, please do not go in the route of butchering the > start_command(), finish_command(), etc. API set with the "uncleaned" > variants. > > Thanks. After rereading your emails just after I had the patches ready to send, I realized it's a bad way to go. Thanks for confirming that. :) -- 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