From: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2010, #01; Sat, 4)
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:31:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101206123136.2acab63a@chalon.bertin.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinJu0KzXZ2Rjbs2+XH7T=Gq5MOajxo51DHtqoGZ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:13:06 +0900
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> wrote:
> it's is normal and good that option names are sometimes revisited and
> improved -- nothing is perfect on the first try. By keeping the old
> option around as a deprecated alias, we avoid compatibility issues.
... except Junio advocates *not* deprecating this one, since it is here
since ages.
> That doesn't mean there aren't _any_ issues, but they tend to be
> pretty minor (such as the "space used by the deprecation option" that
> you complain about).
>
> Maybe if you renamed every option simultaneously, there would be
> confusion, but seriously, it's only one option. It's not going to be
> a problem.
I'm not sure we want to use "it's only one option" as an excuse. It
can easily become a bad habit.
> There is no "usability" problem.
Completion of "git diff --<TAB>" in stable branch gives 44 choices here.
One of the most frequent criticisms about git I hear among coworkers is
that there are so many commands and options. Will be funny to explain
them that "we just added another one, for no technical reason".
--
Yann Dirson - Bertin Technologies
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-05 6:30 What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2010, #01; Sat, 4) Junio C Hamano
2010-12-05 7:39 ` Jeff King
2010-12-05 19:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-06 0:54 ` aleksi.aalto
2010-12-09 17:27 ` Jeff King
2010-12-10 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-05 10:13 ` Yann Dirson
2010-12-05 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-06 7:29 ` Yann Dirson
2010-12-06 8:13 ` Miles Bader
2010-12-06 8:21 ` Yann Dirson
2010-12-06 8:39 ` Miles Bader
2010-12-06 8:48 ` Yann Dirson
2010-12-06 9:13 ` Miles Bader
2010-12-06 11:31 ` Yann Dirson [this message]
2010-12-06 11:37 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-12-10 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-05 12:36 ` aleksi.aalto
2010-12-05 15:51 ` Patrick Rouleau
2010-12-05 13:00 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-12-05 20:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-05 15:00 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-12-05 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-06 8:55 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-12-06 15:39 ` Thiago Farina
2010-12-08 11:23 ` t9010 broken in pu [Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2010, #01; Sat, 4)] Thomas Rast
2010-12-08 11:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
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