From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modified the default git help message to be grouped by topic Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:33:41 -0600 Message-ID: <200812021533.42114.bss03@volumehost.net> References: <20081201173037.GA41967@agadorsparticus> <885649360812021211u3d547982i8e1c3070972363e8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2034898.y7MW8u74uu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "James Pickens" , "Scott Chacon" , "Junio C Hamano" , "Jeff King" To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 02 22:35:56 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 1L7cuO-0005AU-91 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:35:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751263AbYLBVef (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:34:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751603AbYLBVef (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:34:35 -0500 Received: from eastrmmtao107.cox.net ([68.230.240.59]:38382 "EHLO eastrmmtao107.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064AbYLBVee (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:34:34 -0500 Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao107.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20081202213433.RQXA26786.eastrmmtao107.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:34:33 -0500 Received: from localhost ([72.204.50.125]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id mMaY1a0072i4SyG02MaYgo; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:34:33 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=XtNNE2_OhqkA:10 a=bBTrS7EpCHUA:10 a=nEQGfrJnAAAA:8 a=8JbW3EcZIuVG3hot9EQA:9 a=cPWaZQAX-6C3RmOnLoMA:7 a=jC8I9CPDd-rXdHb8zBmOca_EBAEA:4 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=B7iFY6Z7H_gA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 a=KgLcOtmKYNsJaDyuznwA:9 a=VxYq9x35FncOjlbEWXBbPZQfQbYA:4 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Received: from bss by localhost with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L7csN-0006kX-4N; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:33:47 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <885649360812021211u3d547982i8e1c3070972363e8@mail.gmail.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --nextPart2034898.y7MW8u74uu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 02 December 2008, "James Pickens" wrote=20 about 'Re: [PATCH] Modified the default git help message to be grouped by=20 topic': >On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Scott Chacon wrote: >> I sent a new patch that removes 'rm' and 'mv' and removes the >> common-cmd.h build process. I did keep the 'status' command, since in >> my personal experience people tend to like having that command. > >Even though 'rm' might not be used very often, I think it's an important >enough command that it should not be removed from the 'basics' list. >AFAIK, the only other way to delete a file is 'rm file' followed by 'git >add -u' or 'git commit -a'. Imagine a git newbie trying to figure that >out. > >I'm tempted to say the same thing about 'mv' as well. And FWIW, I use >'status' a lot more than I use 'diff', so I would vote to keep 'status' > in the list too. x2 to all of both paragraphs, except that I'm not just "tempted"; I do say= =20 that mv should be kept. =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ =20 --nextPart2034898.y7MW8u74uu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkk1qbYACgkQ55pqL7G1QFklDQCfeiX2kxlCm5xSOy5gGEMjzWa5 xEsAn28iOTZ/QRTVzTKl90ju14Qx2mMy =7jb4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2034898.y7MW8u74uu--