From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David A. Wheeler" Subject: Re: [script] ge: export commits as patches Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:56:23 -0400 Message-ID: <42658C97.5090409@dwheeler.com> References: <20050419134843.GA19146@elte.hu> <20050419170320.GG12757@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 20 00:52:25 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DO1Zn-0008Mm-8S for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:52:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261723AbVDSW40 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:56:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261724AbVDSW40 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:56:26 -0400 Received: from cujo.runbox.com ([193.71.199.138]:47010 "EHLO cujo.runbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261723AbVDSW4Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:56:24 -0400 Received: from [10.9.9.110] (helo=snoopy.runbox.com) by greyhound.runbox.com with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DO1dn-0006d3-17; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:56:23 +0200 Received: from [129.246.254.178] (helo=[129.246.80.140]) by snoopy.runbox.com with asmtp (uid:258406) (Exim 4.34) id 1DO1dm-0001wL-OR; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:56:22 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050419170320.GG12757@pasky.ji.cz> X-Sender: 258406@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Petr Baudis wrote: >Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:48:43PM CEST, I got a letter >where Ingo Molnar told me that... > > >>is there any 'export commit as patch' support in git-pasky? >> >> > >Nice idea. I will add it, probably as 'git patch'. > > > Eek! It's a nice idea, and it'd be great as a subcommand. But PLEASE don't name it "patch". I already know what "patch" does, "patch" ACCEPTS a patch... it doesn't create one ;-). How about naming it "aspatch" or "asdiff" instead? Or something else (good names, anyone?). Good externally-viewed names are critical... good command names that are similar to what people "already know" can really help make the tool a joy to use. --- David A. Wheeler