From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] user-manual: new "getting started" section Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:19:36 -0800 Message-ID: <7v4ooseqvb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vr5ss64e5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <94a0d4530910250243k4cbc3c18l5e018a05e5afdb2d@mail.gmail.com> <20091025111438.GA11252@progeny.tock> <94a0d4530911111515q643e263bn3adc6b47cd968d3d@mail.gmail.com> <4AFBF18E.7070906@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20091114060600.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> <94a0d4530911161452xe82858el322a1985341bf13c@mail.gmail.com> <20091117210625.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> <20091117172815.GH31767@fieldses.org> <7vocn1dn5d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <94a0d4530911171400ub3b093ai668fd2404b12272f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , "J. Bruce Fields" , Nanako Shiraishi , Michael J Gruber , Jonathan Nieder , git@vger.kernel.org, Hannu Koivisto , Jeff King , Wincent Colaiuta , Matthias Lederhofer To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 17 23:20:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAWPD-0005VT-Ds for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:20:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756384AbZKQWT7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756380AbZKQWT7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:59 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:48061 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756377AbZKQWT6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:58 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6268F9F9F9; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:20:04 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=9JO/dKxAAUENSpjKov4ix2obNLc=; b=QCFT6K jNG+GQ94Y37cfc9/BSFBepcYhvf9FZhngfC9o8dUHGfTW+sYn2aWZ45FuEZv1uf4 G7CMfdGRn0WDmiJSjTsc0Vd9DwFX8bcUC/WnGL2U/aNHEcKcgBlGS8qh1dUCjWjz jXtD03F6t3J+tkzq92PHbMBfH+kgAJoEFTkls= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=EOqLdBjjT9A934Dy7nnXDCMLoB83V6wr 6IZzXkljE7R7UdmbTmE4m/3TE6q/cbw3IcP3aODMKg/62fYw0e6f9Bn1GbuEnjTB FvyjYyrUOkuWiRlDtdiewekpoFaJoJd337q96TGiuwzvHZP4HasH7sKB0bWDibRE 5DLiExOL5fc= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1EB9F9F3; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E91049F9EC; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530911171400ub3b093ai668fd2404b12272f@mail.gmail.com> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Wed\, 18 Nov 2009 00\:00\:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 54731D2C-D3C7-11DE-AF87-EF34BBB5EC2E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras writes: > That could be easily fixed by making explicit in the syntax that these > are not typical refs: i.e. @stage and @work. The message I get from that suggestion is that the most sensible approach, if we are going to add something from this discussion to "git diff", is to do what you did _not_ quote from my message, which is: As to --tree-vs-index counterproposal (was it a counterproposal?), except for that I think they are too long to type in practice and need to be shortened to be useful, I do not have a fundamental objection against it. IOW, this is about options, and should not be done as syntax sugar that does a half-baked job of pretending to be refs.