From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git in Outreachy December 2019?
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:40:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190923194004.GF21344@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190921014701.GA191795@google.com>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 06:47:01PM -0700, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> """
> "Did You Mean..?"
>
> There are some situations where it's fairly clear what a user meant to
> do, even though they did not do that thing correctly. For example, if a
> user runs `git commit` with tracked, modified, unstaged files in their
> worktree, but no staged files at all, it's fairly likely that they
> simply forgot to add the files they wanted. In this case, the error
> message is slightly obtuse:
>
> $ git commit
> On branch master
> Changes not staged for commit:
> modified: foo.txt
>
> no changes added to commit
>
>
> Since we have an idea of what the user _meant_ to do, we can offer
> something more like:
>
> $ git commit
> On branch master
> Changes not staged for commit:
> modified: foo.txt
>
> Stage listed changes and continue? [Y/n]
>
> While the above case is a good starting place, other similar cases can
> be added afterwards if time permits. These helper prompts should be
> enabled/disabled via a config option so that people who are used to
> their current workflow won't be impacted.
> """
This is an interesting idea. At first I thought it might be too small
for a project, but I think it could be expanded or contracted as much as
the time allows by just looking for more "did you mean" spots.
I have mixed feelings on making things interactive. For one, it gets
awkward when Git commands are called as part of a script or other
program (and a lot of programs like git-commit ride the line of plumbing
and porcelain). I know this would kick in only when a config option is
set, but I think that might things even _more_ confusing, as something
that works for one user (without the config) would start behaving
weirdly for another.
I also think it might be an opportunity to educate. Instead of giving a
yes/no prompt, we can actually recommend one (or more!) sets of commands
to get the desired effect. I _thought_ we already did for this case by
default (triggered by advice.statusHints, which is true by default). But
it looks like those don't get printed for git-commit?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-23 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-27 5:17 Git in Outreachy December 2019? Jeff King
2019-08-31 7:58 ` Christian Couder
2019-08-31 19:44 ` Olga Telezhnaya
2019-09-04 19:41 ` Jeff King
2019-09-05 7:24 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-05 19:39 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-06 11:55 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07 6:39 ` Jeff King
2019-09-07 10:13 ` Carlo Arenas
2019-09-07 6:36 ` Jeff King
2019-09-08 14:56 ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-09-09 17:00 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 9:47 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 21:54 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-13 20:03 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-13 20:51 ` Jeff King
2019-09-16 18:42 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-16 21:33 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-16 21:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-16 23:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-09-17 0:59 ` Jeff King
2019-09-17 11:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 12:02 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-23 12:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 16:58 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 11:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 13:28 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-26 19:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-26 21:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-09-27 22:18 ` Jeff King
2019-10-09 17:25 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-10-11 6:34 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:19 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-17 15:10 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 12:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-23 19:30 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 18:07 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 14:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-24 15:33 ` Jeff King
2019-09-28 3:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-24 0:55 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-26 12:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-09-30 8:55 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-28 4:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-09-20 17:04 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-21 1:47 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 14:23 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 19:40 ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-09-23 22:29 ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-22 21:16 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-09-23 11:49 ` Christian Couder
2019-09-23 17:58 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:27 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:48 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 19:15 ` Jeff King
2019-09-23 20:38 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-23 21:28 ` Jeff King
2019-09-24 17:07 ` Jonathan Tan
2019-09-26 7:09 ` Jeff King
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