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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands.
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:06:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7inkcz2o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fann62$f5q$2@sea.gmane.org> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:47:30 +0200")

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I think the latter is more important point.  If you train a
>> naive user to use --only-tracked to ignore "Untracked" list, you
>> are doing him or her a great disservice.  Mistake to forget "git
>> add" a new file before commiting will bound to happen.
>
> If it won't acquire short version, nor tab completion, mosts users when
> confronted with such a mothful of option-name wouldn't use it unless
> necessary, I think...

Yeah, but if we accept that --only-tracked patch, I know from
the past experience that people would send a "shorter synonym"
patch, arguing that the capability is already there.

I really think we should resist temptation to add misfeatures
that would encourage bad workflows and new user mistakes.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-24 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4fcfda4a654b003f3ae3dc8d56424b5f59f48093.1187897406.git.v@pp.inet.fi>
2007-08-23 19:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-23 20:50   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-24  6:28     ` Väinö Järvelä
     [not found] ` <4ec861b086e2d349289f956ea0fe9f4d0559a568.1187897406.git.v@pp.inet.fi>
2007-08-23 19:58   ` [PATCH 2/2] Documented "--only-untracked" flag Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-23 20:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands Alex Riesen
2007-08-24  6:35   ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-24  7:40     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-27 13:18       ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-08-24  7:46     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-24  9:31       ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-24  9:55         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 10:52           ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-25 14:39             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 11:40           ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-24 22:47       ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-24 23:06         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-08-25  6:16           ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-25 14:42             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 22:33     ` Alex Riesen
2007-08-25  5:37       ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-25  6:10         ` Junio C Hamano

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