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=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:03:57 +0000 Message-ID: <200612141003.58418.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <7v4przfpir.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200612140927.27259.andyparkins@gmail.com> <20061214093637.GC1747@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=uUobYPeOnW953AGtK3bSV8qKPo7PMlHvKIpNWHq1NZbCdzWZykWTs/LY32NdxDJb4mKhTTvGjPj/Q1pNf6bGyPRJQbmevhZynz9TqjGlHfwjnFHjlrI+BLNT2rj7Wk8JMggIdL4PP58xJQGCMbB3ZhEs3w37jJ3mfGRzk501tm8= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <20061214093637.GC1747@spearce.org> Content-Disposition: inline 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 1GunRg-0002jr-SN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:04:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751825AbWLNKEF (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:04:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751839AbWLNKEF (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:04:05 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]:29586 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751825AbWLNKEC (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:04:02 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so446182uga for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:04:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.19.13 with SMTP id w13mr1167172ugi.1166090641710; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:04:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id m1sm1834886ugc.2006.12.14.02.04.01; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:04:01 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 2006 December 14 09:36, Shawn Pearce wrote: > But I'm not sure that git-add should output anything. Last I checked > the 'mv' command in Linux doesn't say "Move 5 files" when I move 5 > files into a directory. Likewise I don't think that knowing that > 6781 files were added is useful, what if it should have really been > 6782 files? I'm unlikely to know, care, or realize it. That's a very particular example you've picked out there. Of course the user won't know if it should be 6781 or 6782; they might know if it should have been 2 or 10 though; 0 or 100. In your example, output like "about six and a half thousand", would probably be perfectly useful, but why not just output the number? > Your niggle list (is that what you called it) has been useful > fodder for discussion. I'm glad you took the time to write it up, > and to argue it so well on the list. There's a number of items on > it that I'd like to see happen too; enough that I may code some of > them if nobody beats me to it. I'm glad it was useful. I never know how many disclaimers to put on these things. I always feel that every message I write should begin with "I love git and use it every day, so please don't take this the wrong way, but..." Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE