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From: Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Usability question
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:25:29 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Rob Barrett <barrettboy@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

> And people stop asking the question after they get used to git - but
> that's not the same as being usable.

without speaking of usability I'll tell them to use autocompletion to
see which command / options they have until
they get used to them

regards,
Daniele