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From: Rob Barrett <barrettboy@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Usability question
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:21:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <513ca40e0909191921k1b7b14b5j7cfd8734441397d9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqy6odhn0d.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Well, if you want to get rid of subcommands, why not get rid of
> commands, too?
>
> git --commit
> git --status
> git --svn --rebase
>

Well, granted, that's a sort of heavyweight consistency, but all we
should need to do is to help reduce a _new_ user's confusion about
when the word after a subcommand gets a '--' prefix and when it
doesn't.

And do it in a way that's backwards compatible so it doesn't affect
the usage patterns of seasoned users, existing scripts, crons etc.

Will patch and see how it looks..

Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-20  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17 10:01 Usability question Rob Barrett
2009-09-17 10:41 ` 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 [this message]
2009-09-20 18:54     ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-09-17 11:20 ` Owen Taylor

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