From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:29:02 +0200 Message-ID: <471CB3AE.7080802@op5.se> References: <8fe92b430710081355i7d3dbaa2q9a8939b55d7ca7dc@mail.gmail.com> <1192827476.4522.93.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> <4719B655.90204@op5.se> <8fe92b430710201606i47e85b24k17abd819bf0d353b@mail.gmail.com> <471AFD07.4040606@op5.se> <471C586A.9030900@op5.se> <8fe92b430710220526i65ecb862ie1037e9d94d93b83@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Steffen Prohaska , Federico Mena Quintero , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 22 16:29:55 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 1IjyHr-0003lk-8E for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:29:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753292AbXJVO3L (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:29:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753184AbXJVO3J (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:29:09 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:44491 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751961AbXJVO3I (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:29:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFAB41730683; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:29:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.473 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.473 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[AWL=0.026, BAYES_00=-2.599, RDNS_NONE=0.1] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mWbmTtsbgzfW; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:29:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.20]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1878E17305A3; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:29:04 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) In-Reply-To: <8fe92b430710220526i65ecb862ie1037e9d94d93b83@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > On 10/22/07, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > [...] >>>>>> On 10/20/07, Steffen Prohaska wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Maybe we could group commands into more categories? > >> Similarly, it might be helpful to have help topics the gdb way, like >> "git help patches". It's one of those things that people have come to >> expect from a software tool, so perhaps we should humor them? Given gits >> "every help topic is a man-page" idiom, this shouldn't require any real >> technical effort. >> >> Such topics should probably include >> merge/merges/merging - overview of various ways of putting two lines of >> development back together >> patch/patches - how to create, send and apply >> tags/branches/refs - what they are, why they're good, link to merging > > Very good idea. It is definitely something that can be worked on. > > By the way, what do you think about "spying" version of git, specially > marked release which gathers statistics of porcelain used, with > frequency of its use, and git-sendstats command added in this release? > I like it and I'd use it. What's more interesting is that I could probably get my co-workers to do the same. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231