From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands.
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:06:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7inkcz2o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fann62$f5q$2@sea.gmane.org> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:47:30 +0200")
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I think the latter is more important point. If you train a
>> naive user to use --only-tracked to ignore "Untracked" list, you
>> are doing him or her a great disservice. Mistake to forget "git
>> add" a new file before commiting will bound to happen.
>
> If it won't acquire short version, nor tab completion, mosts users when
> confronted with such a mothful of option-name wouldn't use it unless
> necessary, I think...
Yeah, but if we accept that --only-tracked patch, I know from
the past experience that people would send a "shorter synonym"
patch, arguing that the capability is already there.
I really think we should resist temptation to add misfeatures
that would encourage bad workflows and new user mistakes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-24 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-23 19:58 [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-23 19:58 ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-23 20:50 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-24 6:28 ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-23 19:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documented "--only-untracked" flag Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-23 19:58 ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-23 20:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands Alex Riesen
2007-08-24 6:35 ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-24 7:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-27 13:18 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-08-24 7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-24 9:31 ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-24 9:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 10:52 ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-25 14:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 11:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-24 22:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-24 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-08-25 6:16 ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-25 14:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 22:33 ` Alex Riesen
2007-08-25 5:37 ` Väinö Järvelä
2007-08-25 6:10 ` Junio C Hamano
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