From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: git-stash: RFC: Adopt the default behavior to other commands Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:10 +0100 Message-ID: <4767E07A.2020100@op5.se> References: <20071217110322.GH14889@albany.tokkee.org> <506C6191-655D-46AE-A5C2-1335A9044F44@lrde.epita.fr> <7vk5nd53lp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <57F403E7-AF5B-40F1-AE9D-8EA036675A67@lrde.epita.fr> <7vfxy04ze7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071218105941.GA17251@albany.tokkee.org> <4767D7A2.30703@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sebastian Harl , Junio C Hamano , Benoit Sigoure , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 18 16:01:03 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 1J4dw1-00081P-BM for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756250AbXLRPAS (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:00:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756247AbXLRPAR (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:00:17 -0500 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:40695 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756246AbXLRPAQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:00:16 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F741F08046; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:13 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 iWGXMuo5JQkm; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.20]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7001F08043; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:11 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Sebastian Harl wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:31:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>>> But the original point by Sebastian hasn't been answered. He >>>>> wanted to make the command list the stash without arguments. >>>>> >>>>> This was discussed already in the early days of stash and there >>>>> indeed was a suggestion to do so (I think I sided with that), but >>>>> the users did not want it. IIRC, the argument went like: "when I >>>>> say 'stash', that is because I want a quick and immediate way to >>>>> stash, and I do not want a list. If I do not have to have a quick >>>>> way, I would create a temporary commit on the current branch, or >>>>> switch to a temporary branch and commit there." >>>> Well, "git stash save" is just five characters more - I really don't >>>> see why this would be less comfortable (and for the really lazy >>>> people there are still aliases...). On the other hand (if "list" is >>>> the default), we'd get a more consistent interface which imho is >>>> imho more important than typing five characters less. >>> It's more about what you're used to. I had an alias named 'stash' >>> long before it became a git command. And now guess how _annoying_ it >>> would be to type "git stashgit >>> stash save". >> Not nearly as annoying as losing work because of it, and you obviously >> *know* what to do when you're done cursing, while clueless-newbie-X just >> hops away and uses subversion. > > Really? Clueless-newbie-X certainly knows how to apply the stash, > otherwise she would not have used the command, right? > Far too many times I've seen people expect help output if the command they're running is even remotely dangerous, so they go ahead and run it without arguments to see what it does. > In the alternative, you could just scrap all those default actions, > showing synopses instead. For all commands, including "git commit", "git > log", "git fetch", etc. > Like we do for the git wrapper, you mean? Yes, that would be one solution, although not a very good one for all commands. It's probably not a bad idea for commands where the primary use is something else than producing visual output though, such as tag or branch, but those handle creation/deletion of stuff, so the default action for them is to list stuff of the kind they operate on. I fail to see why stash should be any different. > See? > Not really, no. What was your point? -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231