From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John Stoffel" Subject: Re: Pasky problem with 'git init URL' Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:44:45 -0400 Message-ID: <17000.61885.545203.936684@smtp.charter.net> References: <1114100518.17551.31.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20050421202928.GH7443@pasky.ji.cz> <17000.6154.748117.967898@smtp.charter.net> <20050421212648.GM7443@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John Stoffel , Martin Schlemmer , GIT Mailing Lists X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 22 14:40:34 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOxSC-0006OW-J7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:40:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262035AbVDVMot (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:44:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262036AbVDVMot (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:44:49 -0400 Received: from mxsf03.cluster1.charter.net ([209.225.28.203]:30651 "EHLO mxsf03.cluster1.charter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262035AbVDVMor (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:44:47 -0400 Received: from mxip16.cluster1.charter.net (mxip16a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.146]) by mxsf03.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3MCikaV003175 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:44:46 -0400 Received: from 24-107-225-41.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com (HELO jfsnew) (24.107.225.41) by mxip16.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2005 08:44:46 -0400 X-Ironport-AV: i="3.92,123,1112587200"; d="scan'208"; a="1052783786:sNHT13034456" To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050421212648.GM7443@pasky.ji.cz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Petr> Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:15:54PM CEST, I got a letter Petr> where John Stoffel told me that... >> >>>>> "Petr" == Petr Baudis writes: >> Petr> Perhaps it would be useful to have some "command classes" (with at least Petr> cg-*-(add|ls|rm)), like: >> Petr> cg-branch-ls Petr> cg-remote-rm Petr> cg-tag-add >> >> Does a standard like: >> >> git [ ...] Petr> Isn't this basically what I was proposing? (Modulo the UI Petr> changes related to git-pasky -> Cogito.) I'm not quite upto speed on git, I was away on vacation when the list started up and didn't catch it until just recently... And it is close to what you were proposing, but instead of dashes (-) between the command and the object, I'm proposing just a space. Actually, I'm proposing that we decide on a grammar and it's syntax and to try and make it orthagonal and consistent. Principal of least surprises, etc. Thanks, John