From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "Raimund Bauer" Subject: RE: What's in git.git (stable) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:55:51 +0100 Organization: Softwarelandschaft Message-ID: <002401c7202f$34f2af20$0b0aa8c0@abf.local> References: <200612150858.25988.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:02:35 EST X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 In-reply-to: <200612150858.25988.andyparkins@gmail.com> Importance: Normal Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gv9uQ-0001FM-IB for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:03:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751680AbWLOKCh (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:02:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751662AbWLOKCh (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:02:37 -0500 Received: from s15211414.onlinehome-server.info ([87.106.16.196]:51863 "EHLO s15211414.onlinehome-server.info" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751647AbWLOKCg (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:02:36 -0500 Received: (qmail 23138 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2006 10:57:29 +0100 Received: from host-62-245-155-90.customer.m-online.net (HELO swl011) (62.245.155.90) by s15211414.onlinehome-server.info with SMTP; 15 Dec 2006 10:57:29 +0100 To: "'Andy Parkins'" , Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org > Yep. Although you've persuaded me with the above example, I > think this is the > correct path. It's not wise to add every bell and whistle > just because we > can. As long as there is /a/ way to achieve every task, > that's good enough, > we don't need every way to achieve every task. We might even > argue that > git's flexibility is what makes it harder to learn. It's > similar to UNIX in > that respect - hard to learn, easy to use. So we prefer to tell users "You can do what you want with these 3 commands, since we don't want to confuse use with another option to do it with just 1"? > Andy -- best regards Ray