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From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: "Remi Galan Alfonso" <remi.galan-alfonso@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
	<git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Remi Lespinet" <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>,
	"Guillaume Pages" <guillaume.pages@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>,
	"Louis-Alexandre Stuber" 
	<louis--alexandre.stuber@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>,
	"Antoine Delaite" <antoine.delaite@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] git-rebase -i: Add key word "drop" to remove a commit
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 00:42:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68A62E92218D4FD4A71EA138C9F3725A@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xmqqsiahltbu.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com

From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> I find it weird to write
>>
>> noop <sha1> <title>
>
> True, but then it can be spelled
>
>    # <sha1> <title>
>
> too, so do we still want 'drop'?  Unless we have a strong reason to
> believe migrants from Hg cannot be (re)trained, personally, I'd feel
> that we do not need this 'drop' thing.
>
To me, the addition of "drop" would be a better completion of the list 
of action verbs for 'normal' users.

Training/Retraining users to use atypical techniques is a never ending 
task, so making drop a synonym for the existing noop appeals to my 
experience of users (of all sorts of tools, including personal 
experience ;-).

--
Philip 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-27 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-26 21:38 [PATCH/RFC 1/2] git-rebase -i: Add key word "drop" to remove a commit Galan Rémi
2015-05-26 21:38 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/2] git rebase -i: Warn removed or dupplicated commits Galan Rémi
2015-05-26 23:27   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27 13:19     ` Remi Galan Alfonso
2015-05-27 17:41       ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27 19:18       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28  7:44         ` Remi Galan Alfonso
2015-05-28 16:53           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 13:23     ` Remi Galan Alfonso
2015-05-27  8:54   ` Stephen Kelly
2015-05-27 11:38     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-05-27 19:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-26 22:52 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] git-rebase -i: Add key word "drop" to remove a commit Eric Sunshine
2015-05-27  6:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-27 14:53   ` Remi Galan Alfonso
2015-05-27 15:04     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-05-27 19:21       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 19:44         ` Matthieu Moy
2015-05-27 20:35           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 21:47             ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-28 17:06               ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-28 17:12                 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-28 17:45                 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-05-27 23:42         ` Philip Oakley [this message]
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2015-05-29  8:33   ` Remi Galan Alfonso
2015-05-29 15:36     ` Junio C Hamano

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