From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>, Michael Nahas <mike@nahas.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Command-line interface thoughts
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:38:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106072138.50785.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DEE7D46.3080700@lsrfire.ath.cx>
René Scharfe wrote:
> Would it help if a header was shown in this case, describing the
> following diff, e.g. something like this:
>
> $ cd /tmp && mkdir repo && cd repo && git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/repo/.git/
> $ echo a >a && git add a && git commit -m.
> [master (root-commit) faeefb5] .
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 a
> $ echo b >a
> $ git diff
> Let's get rrready to diiiiff!!
> In corner a: the INDEX! And in corner b: the WORKTREE!
>
> diff --git a/a b/a
> index 7898192..6178079 100644
> --- a/a
> +++ b/a
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -a
> +b
>
> Such a prefix would be ignored by patch etc.. You would still get it
> wrong at the first try but now you'd get immediate feedback on what you
> actually compared, without having to read the manpage.
We have `diff.mnemonicprefix`, though it is not header... and is not set
by default ;-)
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-07 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <BANLkTikTWx7A64vN+hVZgL7cuiZ16Eobgg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-06-04 16:17 ` Command-line interface thoughts Michael Nahas
2011-06-04 21:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-05 1:00 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-05 11:10 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-05 18:39 ` Scott Chacon
2011-06-05 23:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 6:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-06 7:34 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-06-06 11:45 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-06 12:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 13:20 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-06-08 13:10 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 16:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-06 16:40 ` Drew Northup
2011-06-06 14:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-06 14:16 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-06-06 16:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-06 17:42 ` Scott Chacon
2011-06-06 19:01 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <BANLkTi=yytzDrJLvVn_ZhJOiQs-rqvKi1w@mail.gmail.com>
2011-06-07 2:31 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-07 4:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-07 11:04 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-07 6:11 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-06-07 11:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-07 19:00 ` Holger Hellmuth
2011-06-07 19:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-07 20:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-08 13:04 ` Holger Hellmuth
2011-06-08 18:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-09 11:55 ` Holger Hellmuth
2011-06-10 16:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-10 18:07 ` Holger Hellmuth
2011-06-10 18:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-10 22:45 ` Holger Hellmuth
2011-06-13 3:43 ` git diff --added (Re: Command-line interface thoughts) Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-13 4:11 ` Miles Bader
2011-06-13 4:46 ` Miles Bader
2011-06-13 8:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-13 12:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-13 12:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-13 19:47 ` Holger Hellmuth
2011-06-13 20:31 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-13 10:15 ` Command-line interface thoughts Jakub Narebski
2011-06-13 22:33 ` Holger Hellmuth
2011-06-14 4:21 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-06-14 7:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-07 19:34 ` René Scharfe
2011-06-07 19:38 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-06-08 11:12 ` Command-line interface thoughts (ad-hominem attacks) Jakub Narebski
2011-06-08 11:39 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-08 12:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-08 14:15 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-08 15:05 ` Jeff King
2011-06-08 18:57 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-09 0:43 ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 1:56 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-10 15:29 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-09 9:48 ` Command-line interface thoughts Jakub Narebski
2011-06-09 11:44 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-09 12:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-09 13:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-09 9:06 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-06-09 10:02 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-06-09 13:30 ` Thomas Rast
2011-06-09 16:18 ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 17:15 ` Jay Soffian
2011-06-09 17:20 ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-09 18:20 ` Jay Soffian
2011-06-09 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-09 18:03 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-06-09 18:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-09 19:17 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-06-09 20:04 ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 21:37 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-06-09 22:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-09 23:02 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-06-10 10:19 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-10 11:06 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-10 12:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-09 22:21 ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 22:27 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-09 22:38 ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 22:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-10 0:00 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-10 0:08 ` Jeff King
2011-06-10 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 22:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-10 23:05 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-12 6:06 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-06-12 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-12 13:30 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-12 21:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-13 2:14 ` Michael Nahas
2011-06-13 18:50 ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 19:41 ` Jeff King
2011-06-05 21:22 ` Paul Ebermann
2011-06-05 21:34 ` Paul Ebermann
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