From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-applymbox: Remove command
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:57:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vejl719vf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070520001012.5051.38142.stgit@rover> (Petr Baudis's message of "Sun, 20 May 2007 02:10:13 +0200")
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> I believe noone uses git-applymbox, and noone definitely should, since it
> is supposed to be completely superseded and everything by its younger
> cousin git-am. The only known person in the universe to use it was Linus
> and he declared some time ago that he will try to use git-am instead in his
> famous dotest script.
>
> The trouble is that git-applymbox existence creates confusing UI. I'm a bit
> like a recycled newbie to the git porcelain and *I* was confused by
> git-applymbox primitiveness until I've realized a while later that I'm of
> course using the wrong command.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
>
> ---
>
> (Admittelly this patch is a bit brave and maybe we should make applymbox
> print some scary messages first for some time. I'm testing the water here
> to see if anyone complains. I still think that noone really uses it,
> though.)
Brave.
I suspect nobody really uses it, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-23 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-20 0:10 [PATCH] git-applymbox: Remove command Petr Baudis
2007-05-23 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-05-25 2:33 ` [PATCH] Remove git-applypatch Junio C Hamano
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