From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC 1/2] Make the list of common commands more exclusive Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:24:12 +0100 Organization: glandium.org Message-ID: <20071112102412.GA24803@glandium.org> References: <20071111235819.GB7392@thunk.org> <1194829077-14320-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <7vzlxk8apz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071112062222.GA17462@thunk.org> <7vhcjr53hp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Theodore Tso , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 12 11:26:07 2007 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 1IrWUQ-000300-OW for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:25:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756903AbXKLKZo (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:25:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756777AbXKLKZn (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:25:43 -0500 Received: from vawad.err.no ([85.19.200.177]:52705 "EHLO vawad.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756377AbXKLKZn (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:25:43 -0500 Received: from aputeaux-153-1-92-161.w86-217.abo.wanadoo.fr ([86.217.54.161] helo=vaio.glandium.org) by vawad.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IrWTm-0000oW-MH; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:25:21 +0100 Received: from mh by vaio.glandium.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IrWSi-0006W2-5Q; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:24:12 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vhcjr53hp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mh@glandium.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vaio.glandium.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Spam-Status: (score 2.0): Status=No hits=2.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL version=3.1.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:26:10PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > My mental model for git newbies is that they would probably be pulling > > from upstream repositories (so I was tempted to remove git-init from > > the common commands list), but they would rarely be cherry-picking or > > reverting other people's changes. > > I'd agree with that, but reverting and cherry-picking would also > be done on the commits the user builds on top of other people's > changes. On the other hand, cherry-picking and reverting are just the same thing, except one applies a reversed patch. Wouldn't it make sense to merge these two in one command ? Mike