From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: What is missing from Git v2.0 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:58:29 -0500 Message-ID: <53588be5192d5_59ed83d30824@nysa.notmuch> References: <53557071.5040500@gmail.com> <5356c1a61f6d8_463e11ef310a5@nysa.notmuch> <20140422213039.GB21043@thunk.org> <53588713347b7_59ed83d308cf@nysa.notmuch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Theodore Ts'o , Junio C Hamano , Sebastian Schuberth , Git Mailing List To: David Lang , Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 24 06:09:03 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WdAy6-0001Tg-8s for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 06:09:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751236AbaDXEI5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:08:57 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f51.google.com ([209.85.219.51]:46521 "EHLO mail-oa0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750835AbaDXEI5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:08:57 -0400 Received: by mail-oa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id i4so2035098oah.24 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:08:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:message-id:in-reply-to:references:subject :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AfKZtTU7TXseYrrTgJSgTs5SJDx1E9TOdtnsQmBjpU8=; b=ReJjn/K03JAfuqAA37Kee4JzZ1EsxM91n5Ncqyi6S/fMniQ3ZfP5WyvjgbsXkbINvZ yRot1LuY1WYASrRggYJFFygQzskkI/c6jZ0JCnRyp941IyKDRfgzJGg+ORseGeJEmnof /I0AgHCqZn2ylDN53+eOmrVyGbWfHamMJX8NNHlyC5Ed+3C5V0UpJrLiWyMZY0UGPnh+ Ib7m98iABcCcP93cWOPWLHR2Jkg/A0J5Revt6qMKxyVvfK+lPL329i4UDd2QsNB8JCDZ V+dVG/WrCsrMQsmsIClJsLFF8c4P2DGdFMWm7gTzUhzhuV9QFiWSNsh3vJNySlcWSElg Ws6Q== X-Received: by 10.60.150.143 with SMTP id ui15mr114542oeb.50.1398312536646; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:08:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (189-211-224-40.static.axtel.net. [189.211.224.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 10sm6068391obq.18.2014.04.23.21.08.53 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:08:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Lang wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > David Lang wrote: > >> agreed, of all the things that people complain about regarding learning git, > >> the fact that the commands are words instead of cryptic 2 letter > >> abberviations is not one of them. > > > > It is when they start to use Git seriously and type them a lot. > > If that was such a significant factor, nobody would use Java with it's horribly > long function names. There are these things called IDE's where people don't end up typing the whole function names. Take a look. > People are far more bothered about all the switches to remember and the options > for them than they are the fact that they have to type entire words. This is, again, a red herring. The fact that B is more important doesn't mean A shouldn't be done. -- Felipe Contreras