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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: branch --set-upstream considered harmful
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:37:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006070837.16713.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTildT6TRd0sPlv1QbCLO7oOPHM-L1yWNIdhdp0ex@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian wrote:
> 
> Git is inconsistent.
[...]
> $ git branch --set-upstream=origin/master
> $ git branch --set-upstream origin/master

Doesn't this just make it *more* confusing?

Either we document this, and the user will be left wondering why we
have two almost identical (and by the conventions of many other
programs, including git-send-email, *equivalent*) syntaxes doing,
well, something not quite entirely unlike the same.

Or we don't, and the user will eventually typo it and wonder WTF he
just did wrong.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-07  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-06 19:21 branch --set-upstream considered harmful Jay Soffian
2010-06-07  5:10 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-07  5:19   ` Jay Soffian
2010-06-07  6:37     ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2010-06-07  7:37       ` Jay Soffian
2010-06-07  8:44 ` Michael J Gruber

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