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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	avarab@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, sbeller@google.com,
	sxenos@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 00/14] Introduce new commands switch-branch and restore-files
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 04:46:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbm63iuf0.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181202185838.GN4883@hank.intra.tgummerer.com> (Thomas Gummerer's message of "Sun, 2 Dec 2018 18:58:38 +0000")

Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:

> Agreed, I think --{no-,}overlay is a much better name for the option,
> I'll use that for my patch series (I hope to send that soon after 2.20
> is released).

OK.

> I must admit that I was not aware that the mode is called overlay
> mode, before you explained it to me, so I wouldn't expect most users
> to know either.  But as it's easy to explain that probably doesn't
> matter much.

I do not think "the mode is called the overlay mode" is so accurate
a description.  I think I've seen the word 'overlay' used to
describe the behaviour in earlier discussions, but because there is
no 'non-overlay' mode exists in versions of 'git checkout' the
end-users have, the users won't even be aware of the possibility
that mode different from what they are used to see could exist, or
that the mode that they are used to see could be called/explained as
the 'overlay' mode.  IOW, we should pick the best phrase to explain
the behaviour we can use when coming up with the command line
option, and that phrase does not have to be 'overlay'---there is no
"using the word 'overlay' for this is good because the users are
familiar with the existing use of the word", simply because there
isn't such familiarilty ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-02 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-10 13:35 [PATCH/RFC] checkout: print something when checking out paths Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-12  6:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-12 16:27   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-12 20:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-19 13:08     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-19 15:19       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-20  2:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-20 17:45         ` [RFC] Introduce two new commands, switch-branch and restore-paths Duy Nguyen
2018-11-25 22:20           ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-11-26  3:03             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-26 15:37               ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-26 16:00           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-26 16:08             ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-26 23:10             ` Stefan Beller
2018-11-27  0:34               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-27 16:52           ` [PATCH/RFC v2 0/7] Introduce new commands switch-branch and checkout-files Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-27 16:52             ` [PATCH v2 1/7] parse-options: allow parse_options_concat(NULL, options) Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-27 19:43               ` Stefan Beller
2018-11-28 15:22                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-28  4:47               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-27 16:52             ` [PATCH v2 2/7] checkout: make "opts" in cmd_checkout() a pointer Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-27 16:52             ` [PATCH v2 3/7] checkout: move 'confict_style' to checkout_opts Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-27 19:50               ` Stefan Beller
2018-11-27 16:52             ` [PATCH v2 4/7] checkout: move dwim_new_local_branch " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-27 19:52               ` Stefan Beller
2018-11-27 16:52             ` [PATCH v2 5/7] checkout: split options[] array in three pieces Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29  6:29               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-27 16:52             ` [PATCH v2 6/7] checkout: split into switch-branch and checkout-files Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-28  6:03               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-28 15:30                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-28 19:08                   ` Stefan Beller
2018-11-28 19:18                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-29  5:55                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-28 23:22                   ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-28 23:26                     ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-28 23:37                       ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-29  5:59                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-29 15:36                         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-29 15:46                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-29 18:14                       ` Stefan Beller
2018-11-29 18:30                         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-29 19:29                       ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-27 16:52             ` [PATCH v2 7/7] Suggest other commands instead of "git checkout" Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-28  6:04               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-28 15:33                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-29  6:05                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-28 20:01             ` [PATCH/RFC v2 0/7] Introduce new commands switch-branch and checkout-files Duy Nguyen
2018-11-28 20:09               ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-28 20:30                 ` Stefan Beller
2018-11-29 15:33                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-03 21:42                     ` Stefan Beller
2018-11-30  1:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]               ` <CAPL8Ziuj7Ffmdvz6NZWSJ+vzAtxFQhO1cfY2wmXm16J_8sY5fw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-28 22:53                 ` Stefan Xenos
2018-11-29  6:14                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-29 21:58             ` [PATCH/RFC v3 00/14] Introduce new commands switch-branch and restore-files Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 01/14] git-checkout.txt: fix one syntax line Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 02/14] git-checkout.txt: split detached head section out Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 03/14] checkout: factor out some code in parse_branchname_arg() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 04/14] checkout: make "opts" in cmd_checkout() a pointer Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 05/14] checkout: move 'confict_style' and 'dwim_..' to checkout_opts Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 06/14] checkout: split options[] array in three pieces Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 07/14] checkout: split into switch-branch and restore-files Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-12-04  0:45                 ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-04  3:33                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-04 16:21                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-04 17:43                     ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-04 18:17                       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-05  2:25                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-05  4:45                           ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-05  6:56                             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-05  2:14                     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-05  4:22                       ` Elijah Newren
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 08/14] switch-branch: better names for -b and -B Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 09/14] switch-branch: stop accepting pathspec Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 10/14] switch-branch: reject "do nothing" case Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 11/14] switch-branch: only allow explicit detached HEAD Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2019-03-10 19:32                 ` Eckhard Maaß
2019-03-11 14:27                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 12/14] restore-files: take tree-ish from --from option instead Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 13/14] restore-files: make pathspec mandatory Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 21:58               ` [PATCH v3 14/14] doc: promote "git switch-branch" and "git restore-files" Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-29 23:05               ` [PATCH/RFC v3 00/14] Introduce new commands switch-branch and restore-files Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-29 23:18                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-29 23:37                 ` Dan Fabulich
2018-11-30  0:16                 ` Dan Fabulich
2018-11-30  6:49                   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-30  5:37                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-30  6:47                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-30 11:29                   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-30 12:10                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-30  2:16               ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-30  5:41                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-30  6:46                   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-12-02 18:58                 ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-12-02 19:46                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-12-04  1:28               ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-04 16:27                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-04 17:45                   ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-04 18:22                     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-04 18:31                       ` Elijah Newren
2018-12-04 18:39                         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-04 21:18                   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-13 18:28 ` [PATCH v2] checkout: print something when checking out paths Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-14 10:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-14 15:31     ` Duy Nguyen
2019-01-28 21:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-29  1:26     ` Duy Nguyen
2019-02-06  2:51     ` [PATCH 0/2] nd/checkout-noisy updates Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2019-02-06  2:51       ` [PATCH 1/2] checkout: update count-checkouts messages Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2019-02-06  2:51       ` [PATCH 2/2] checkout: count and print -m paths separately Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy

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