From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <87k61yt1x2.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <455A1137.8030301@shadowen.org> <87hcx1u934.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <87bqn9u43s.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <7vbqn9y6w6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v3b8ltq7r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <455BBCE9.4050503@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:00:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-X-Sender: gene099@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkqDX-0003sW-QF for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755490AbWKPXAU (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:00:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755491AbWKPXAU (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:00:20 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:60586 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755490AbWKPXAT (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:00:19 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2006 23:00:18 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO dumbo2) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 17 Nov 2006 00:00:18 +0100 To: Linus Torvalds Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Peopel seem to believe that changign a few names or doing other totally > _minimal_ UI changes would somehow magically make things understandable. Never ever underestimate pet peeves. If we give many people an obvious reason (however trivial and bike-shed-coloured) to complain, they will complain. If we pull (pun intended) that reason away under their collective backsides, they will have to find another reason to complain. But by the time they found something, they will already be happy git users! But since you just provided a patch to make life easier on non-gitters, I guess you agree with that already. And hopefully you also agree that enhancing the syntax of git-merge to grok "git-merge [-m message] " and "git-merge [-m message] " would be a lovely thing, luring even more people into using git. Maybe they even start complaining about subversion and CVS calling a merge "update", who knows? Ciao, Dscho