From: Rob Barrett <barrettboy@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Usability question
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:01:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <513ca40e0909170301s2b09184akb27acde76975c09b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
When starting with git people almost always ask some variant of "how
do I know whether this option should be prefixed with dashes or not?"
i.e. git reset --hard vs. git stash save --patch, which coupled with
other path, sha and treeish args make things a bit more confusing.
Not sure if this has been discussed before? If it has point me at the
discussion and I'll go look at it -- no need to read further.
And people stop asking the question after they get used to git - but
that's not the same as being usable.
Out of 60+ commands, most take the form
git <subcommand> [--option]
and a few take the form
git <subcommand> subsubcommand [--option]
(a quick scan gives: bisect,bundle,reflog,remote,stash)
My questions:
1. What is the distinction that makes the 10% special enough to get
non-prefixed options?
2. Is it worthwhile? Wouldn't it be better if to shoot for more
consistency / less complexity?
Rob
next reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 10:01 Rob Barrett [this message]
2009-09-17 10:41 ` Usability question Matthieu Moy
2009-09-17 12:13 ` SZEDER Gábor
2009-09-17 13:09 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-17 13:25 ` Daniele Segato
2009-09-20 2:21 ` Rob Barrett
2009-09-20 18:54 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-17 11:20 ` Owen Taylor
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