From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:22:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20080716220946.GC18558@leksak.fem-net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan Beyer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 17 01:23:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJGL5-0000KR-7I for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:23:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759808AbYGPXWQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:22:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759902AbYGPXWQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:22:16 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58233 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1759803AbYGPXWP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:22:15 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2008 23:22:13 -0000 Received: from 88-107-142-10.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (EHLO eeepc-johanness.st-andrews.ac.uk) [88.107.142.10] by mail.gmx.net (mp022) with SMTP; 17 Jul 2008 01:22:13 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/4AqMkiLL4Gu0NTqg6tgulPJHTWI0ryd0hW86SqT l2jDIGL3rNBtPh X-X-Sender: user@eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: <20080716220946.GC18558@leksak.fem-net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.74 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > I also think that for a user it is totally irrelevant if it is plumbing > or porcelain she is using, as long as it works. I mean, if I tought > someone using git, I'd never use the words "porcelain" or "plumbing". So you would say that remembering the name "rev-parse" is just as easy as remembering "show"? You want to say that --keep-dash-dash and --stat are on the same level, since both work? Somehow I don't think so. Ciao, Dscho