Re: [PATCH 6/6] DWIM "git add remote ..."

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > It is wrong to divert to "git remote add" when you typed the (more 
> > English) "git add remote".  But is it also pretty convenient.
> 
> Please don't do cute things like this. Suddenly "git add remote" has two 
> different meanings depending on whether you have a file called "remote" 
> or not. That is *not* ok.
> 
> Not to mention the fact that your patch is also a horrible piece of 
> bug-infested shit, to put it less-than-politely. Namely, you now broke 
> "git add remote" when "remote" is a symbolic link pointing to 
> hyperspace.
> 
> But even if you fix that bug, it only goes to show just how misguided 
> things like these are. It's a *lot* more important to make sense and not 
> have surprising special cases, than to try to make git command lines act 
> as if they were free-form English.

Hehe.  You're right, of course.  But I could not resist showing off that 
patch which I wrote after I mixed up the command line of "remote add" for 
the 926th time.

Ciao,
Dscho