From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, jrnieder@google.com,
Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] [RFC] Maintenance jobs and job runner
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 16:43:32 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2004071634570.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200407142647.GB1963@danh.dev>
Hi Danh,
On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, Danh Doan wrote:
> Adding this set of commands to Git gonna made Git over-complicated,
> IMHO.
Let me counter that by The Tale of the Green Button: while it is not
completely historically accurate, it is a good illustration of focusing on
What Matters Most:
Once upon a time, Xerox built really nice copy machines that were very
good and did a lot of useful things such as making one or more copies of
one or more pages at a certain set of paper sizes with a certain set of
paper criteria (heavy paper, shiny paper, double-sided copies) etc.
And the tale goes: nobody used it. Then a usability expert came in,
interviewed the users and figured out that it was too complicated to use.
The result was the big green button with which you can make one copy using
the standard paper size and the default paper.
This set of commands that you are complaining about is intended to be that
Big Green Button.
Also, maybe we should not talk too loudly about "making" Git
over-complicated. If you care to have a look at
https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ and find yourself being very
much reminded of the current Git User Interface's complexity, you might
agree that we should probably try to make _using_ Git less complicated.
Even if it means adding new commands. Such as `git restore` and `git
switch`. And, yes, like `git job-runner` (or whatever we end up calling
it, I do agree with Junio that `git maintenance` is a nice name for its
intended purpose).
Don't just believe me. I invite you to interview the software engineers
developing the Windows Operating System,. Or for that matter, _any_
software engineers working on projects substantially larger than git.git.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-07 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-03 20:47 [PATCH 00/15] [RFC] Maintenance jobs and job runner Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 01/15] run-job: create barebones builtin Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:10 ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-05 19:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-06 14:42 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07 0:58 ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 10:54 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07 14:16 ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 14:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 02/15] run-job: implement commit-graph job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-05-20 19:08 ` Josh Steadmon
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 03/15] run-job: implement fetch job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:14 ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-06 12:48 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-05 20:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-06 12:46 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-05-20 19:08 ` Josh Steadmon
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 04/15] run-job: implement loose-objects job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 20:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 05/15] run-job: implement pack-files job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-05-27 22:17 ` Josh Steadmon
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 06/15] run-job: auto-size or use custom pack-files batch Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 07/15] config: add job.pack-files.batchSize option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 08/15] job-runner: create builtin for job loop Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 09/15] job-runner: load repos from config by default Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:18 ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-06 12:49 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-05 15:41 ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-06 12:57 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 10/15] job-runner: use config to limit job frequency Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:24 ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 11/15] job-runner: use config for loop interval Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 12/15] job-runner: add --interval=<span> option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 13/15] job-runner: skip a job if job.<job-name>.enabled is false Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 14/15] job-runner: add --daemonize option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 15/15] runjob: customize the loose-objects batch size Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 21:40 ` [PATCH 00/15] [RFC] Maintenance jobs and job runner Junio C Hamano
2020-04-04 0:16 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07 0:50 ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 10:59 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07 14:26 ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 14:43 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2020-04-07 1:48 ` brian m. carlson
2020-04-07 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-07 22:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-08 0:01 ` brian m. carlson
2020-05-27 22:39 ` Josh Steadmon
2020-05-28 0:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-27 21:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-28 14:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-28 14:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-05-28 14:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-28 15:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-05-28 15:30 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-05-28 4:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
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