From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:16:24 -0400 Message-ID: <20080826171623.GE5318@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <7vy72kek6y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080826145719.GB5046@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1f6632e50808260904t6bea0be5kc69342917e3db97@mail.gmail.com> <20080826162513.GR10544@machine.or.cz> <20080826164526.GM26610@one.firstfloor.org> <20080826171012.GO10360@machine.or.cz> <20080826171255.GI26523@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Petr Baudis , Andi Kleen , Matthias Kestenholz , Kristian H??gsberg , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 26 19:17:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KY2Ad-00008z-Hw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:17:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754330AbYHZRQ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:16:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753825AbYHZRQ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:16:27 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:4454 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752571AbYHZRQ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:16:26 -0400 Received: (qmail 32102 invoked by uid 111); 26 Aug 2008 17:16:25 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:16:25 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:16:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080826171255.GI26523@spearce.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:12:55AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > I'm the reason why count-objects, ls-tree and checkout-index are > still offered by the bash completion. And sitting here reading your > email I realized its been _months_ since I last called checkout-index > by hand. I still run count-objects and ls-tree very so often, but the > average user probably doesn't use ls-tree. > > So yea, these probably should be removed from the completion list. > But I can make a weak argument for keeping count-objects. I think this message shows the conflict in setting up such a list. We want the command set to be as tiny as possible to help new users find their way. But we want the command set to be useful to git power users. I wonder if there should be multiple sets of commands for completion, with a minimal set enabled by default, and a "power user" set that exposes extra commands. I dunno. Maybe that is overengineering. I don't even use the bash completion at all. -Peff