From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"david@lang.hm" <david@lang.hm>,
Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 05:51:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110514125133.GA765@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buozkmw5w3j.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:36:16PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> > Do you or do you not run "apt-get install git-superadd"?
> >
> > One possible answer may be to run "apt-get install git-superadd", and then
> > the users who want "git add" to behave in a new way to opt-in to use the
> > "plug-in". I think that is what Jon is getting at.
>
> If aliases could override built-in command names, it'd be easy enough
> ("alias add=superadd") ... [with some feature to allow suppressing the
> alias to prevent recursion, e.g. an environment variable or something.]
I always thought this restriction was a good thing.
The usability argument usually goes that it's generally
bad for "git frotz" somewhere to behave different from
"git frotz" somewhere else.
Keeping this "limitation" is good for the sake of consistency.
This topic is orthogonal to the plugin rfc, though.
--
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-14 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 3:36 RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions? Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 3:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-27 5:06 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 5:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 5:10 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 5:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 5:33 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 5:37 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 5:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 5:42 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 7:15 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 7:57 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-04-27 8:15 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 8:40 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 9:36 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 9:59 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 10:48 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 10:21 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-04-27 10:44 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 11:38 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2011-04-27 11:57 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 22:32 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2011-04-27 22:47 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 11:01 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-04-27 11:42 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-13 19:32 ` Enrico Weigelt
2011-04-27 12:08 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-27 12:50 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 13:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-04-27 13:59 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 14:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-27 15:36 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 16:13 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 17:07 ` A Large Angry SCM
2011-04-28 3:07 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 3:26 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 5:04 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 6:15 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 16:16 ` david
2011-04-29 3:35 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 19:16 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 19:19 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 18:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 18:49 ` Drew Northup
2011-04-27 19:42 ` Joey Hess
2011-04-27 20:16 ` Drew Northup
2011-04-27 21:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 22:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-27 22:32 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 9:07 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-27 23:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-27 23:42 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-28 0:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-28 0:50 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 0:54 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 0:55 ` david
2011-04-28 2:08 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 2:15 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 2:49 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 9:25 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-28 10:56 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 11:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-28 11:20 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-05 21:41 ` David Aguilar
2011-05-05 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-05 23:51 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 4:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-06 6:20 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 6:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-06 7:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-06 14:07 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 14:17 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-06 14:29 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 14:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-08 4:28 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-08 6:49 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-05-08 7:42 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-06 17:23 ` Jeff King
2011-05-07 8:24 ` John Szakmeister
2011-05-08 4:44 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 7:35 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 7:49 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 8:12 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 8:45 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 10:44 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 11:07 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 11:13 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 11:24 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 11:28 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 12:21 ` Jeff King
2011-05-09 22:50 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-08 13:13 ` Jon Seymour
2011-05-09 4:36 ` Miles Bader
2011-05-14 12:51 ` David Aguilar [this message]
2011-04-28 9:11 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-04-28 10:38 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 7:40 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2011-04-28 8:09 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 9:11 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2011-04-28 9:42 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 0:06 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-28 0:08 ` Jon Seymour
2011-04-27 21:29 ` Motiejus Jakštys
2011-04-27 21:47 ` Jon Seymour
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