From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com>,
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git's inconsistent command line options
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:10:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xoV=NZvcUyqbdOpjcD1ykrpU7zrWB4JDVMSdBVC7EHEgw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqio822atc.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> But notice that I said "if you really want to". I personally think
> it is a road to madness.
Agreed. I don't believe in command line API here. I think we'd need a
better solution.
My gut says: Live with the warts on old commands and try to make
people use command words for new commands.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-26 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-25 8:01 Git's inconsistent command line options Graeme Geldenhuys
2015-08-25 15:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-25 21:49 ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-25 22:06 ` Stefan Beller
2015-08-25 22:21 ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-25 23:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-26 1:30 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2015-08-26 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-26 18:10 ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2015-08-26 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-08-26 22:52 ` Philip Oakley
2015-08-26 23:02 ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-26 23:03 ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-26 4:09 ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-26 6:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-08-26 6:33 ` Jacob Keller
2015-08-31 10:10 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-08-31 14:25 ` Barry Warsaw
2015-09-01 9:28 ` David Aguilar
2015-09-01 14:19 ` Barry Warsaw
2015-09-01 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-01 17:50 ` Barry Warsaw
2015-09-01 17:56 ` Stefan Beller
2015-09-09 9:42 ` Michael J Gruber
2015-09-09 9:42 ` Michael J Gruber
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