From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ramkumar Ramachandra" <artagnon@gmail.com>,
"Bráulio Bhavamitra" <brauliobo@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [git-users] Highlevel (but simple to implement) commands provided by default for git
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:32:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2G3NVUyVViF2NP0TEEuGLp-3z+xf-uhsjC-Np80WA-tA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130530145447.GC4884@elie.Belkin>
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> A bigger problem (in my opinion) with allowing arbitrary changes to
>>>>> the meaning of existing commands is that scripts, whether placed in
>>>>> .sh files or given as commands to run over IRC, stop working
>>>>> altogether. It's nice to have commands like "git log" and "git am"
>>>>> mean the same thing no matter what machine I am on.
>>>>
>>>> Except that's not true:
>>>
>>> It's not true that my opinion is that a bigger problem than the
>>> non-problem Ram mentioned with allowing arbitrary changes to the
>>> meaning of existing commands is that scripts stop working reliably?
>>
>> It's not true what you said:
>>
>> commands like "git log" and "git am" mean the same thing no matter
>> what machine I am on.
>
> It's not true that it's nice when they do?
Yeah, it's nice that the sun is purple. Never-mind the fact that it's not true.
The consistency you experience across machines has absolutely nothing
to do with Git, since Git can be configured in a way you don't
consider nice.
So this argument is invalid. Any proposed change to make Git more
configurable is not affected by this argument, because Git can
*already* be configured in a way that would break your experience, yet
it doesn't happen.
In other words; it's the policy or your machine users you have to
thank for, not Git's code, and changing Git's code is not going to
change that policy.
Either way this is a straw man, again, nobody is pushing to allow
builtins to be overridable.
The topic is default *aliases*.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-30 15:32 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <f611150e-a12a-47f6-97f0-8aaff3045338-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
2013-05-29 18:05 ` Highlevel (but simple to implement) commands provided by default for git Bráulio Bhavamitra
2013-05-29 18:11 ` Fwd: [git-users] " Bráulio Bhavamitra
2013-05-29 18:26 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-29 19:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-29 20:00 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 2:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-29 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-29 20:19 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-29 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-29 21:26 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-02 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-03 23:22 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-05-29 18:58 ` Fwd: " Junio C Hamano
2013-05-29 19:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-29 20:27 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
[not found] ` <CAJri6_uScqjovt5eK9f9+Z4ehtsdYQNuiEX1MERiDBEJWueAXg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-29 21:32 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-29 23:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-05-30 3:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-30 5:23 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-05-30 5:28 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-05-30 14:54 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-05-30 15:32 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2013-05-30 7:30 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 3:04 ` Felipe Contreras
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