From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: move help to end of todo file
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:46:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbq9m5wpa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711221113360.27959@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:15:51 +0000 (GMT)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> How about this? I am hesitant to remove _everything_, since quite
> a few people seem to be allergic to man pages, so they fire up
> rebase -i without any clue.
Oh, I wouldn't dream of suggesting complete removal of the help
text, but leaving the single line at the beginning is not an
improvement. What's on that single line is not particularly
useful but that is a separate issue.
Moving everything down will hurt ONLY when (1) the rebase is
about a large series (more than 24 commits in vt100) AND (2) the
user hasn't run "rebase -i" before and does not know that there
is a reminder insn at the end. Now is it likely for a newbie to
run "rebase -i" with 20-30 commits and that invocation is his
first "rebase -i" invocation in his life?
The new help line at the end is helpful, by the way. I always
had "Huh?" moment, and did ^Z followed by kill %% instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-22 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 9:21 Reordering lines in "git-rebase -i" task sheet Junio C Hamano
2007-11-22 11:15 ` [PATCH] rebase -i: move help to end of todo file Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-22 11:41 ` [PATCH] Adjust t3404 to ignore empty lines in the " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-22 11:46 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-11-22 12:30 ` [PATCH] rebase -i: move help to end of " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-22 12:31 ` Jeff King
2007-11-22 11:18 ` [PATCH] rebase -i: give rerere a chance Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-29 0:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-29 0:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-29 9:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-22 19:25 ` Reordering lines in "git-rebase -i" task sheet David Brown
2007-11-22 22:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-23 8:54 ` Andy Parkins
2007-11-26 13:14 ` Andy Parkins
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