From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Suggestion: doc restructuring Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:04:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <48806D03.30603@fastmail.fm> <7vk5fhc6qo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <48842FA8.5070309@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Michael J Gruber , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 21 12:04:49 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 1KKsFz-00029V-IN for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:04:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753921AbYGUKDi (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:03:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756471AbYGUKDi (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:03:38 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:56167 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752372AbYGUKDh (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:03:37 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2008 10:03:35 -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 (mp056) with SMTP; 21 Jul 2008 12:03:35 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/zVFZ1grDzAOHb7mnZQQQHi1Tl5+zj5aGant4HBc zraZUPPbxHLqI/ X-X-Sender: user@eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: <48842FA8.5070309@op5.se> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.73 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > Side note, that was why I suggested us to first think about use cases > > in our every day work that we still need to resort to the plumbing, > > so that we can identify what that enhancement would consist of. > > Half a year or so ago, there were some mailings to the list along the > lines of "what git commands do you use?", using the bash history and a > shell oneliner to dig out some crude intel. Actually, I did not even like that approach back then. Just because you happen to be an old-timer and use rev-parse and rev-list frequently does not mean that you _have_ to use it, or even _should_ use it, or that it would be good to teach your command lines to a newbie. Ciao, Dscho