From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jakub Narebski" Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:26:37 +0200 Message-ID: <8fe92b430710220526i65ecb862ie1037e9d94d93b83@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fe92b430710081355i7d3dbaa2q9a8939b55d7ca7dc@mail.gmail.com> <1192827476.4522.93.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> <4719B655.90204@op5.se> <8fe92b430710201606i47e85b24k17abd819bf0d353b@mail.gmail.com> <471AFD07.4040606@op5.se> <471C586A.9030900@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" , "Steffen Prohaska" , "Federico Mena Quintero" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Andreas Ericsson" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 22 14:26:57 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 1IjwMt-0002HM-Af for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:26:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751828AbXJVM0k (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:26:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751939AbXJVM0k (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:26:40 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.235]:30995 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751662AbXJVM0j (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:26:39 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so400224nze for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:26:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=sXMqWLMX0vY/CJlbjjBjvSKHKcBbsRQt5oMcWwfNAjo=; b=iMjWoK4L5FNxSeq45cOoMRV6eMjz3u8ej8wq9MDMM8lgZs14pldjCAnBJwB5fKWIQuMnN/2YzPd1K9z26rUt9fTWORvPSfL7Q4pKgwkT1INPnkZ7dMRKCMPgq7459qVhYMoPC2f7GuYW6NIYV6itqHOdQF4DgSNMkNVuCMZuvjY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JzZunRGqflHhXLF4HOx8aMs5FX6v7YBECDn8bPIjqPORyjBqaXlHkUaKrt8ysoLt8MQeGywZgjY4fKO+IadFwo3aLq8YCMC4wgrdyqh0gEJfN0evfyZTq/MTBUQo2sKilS6BsBelA0wOVJsscFuZBYKgc2HyPOFxcHI5/OJAHao= Received: by 10.114.12.9 with SMTP id 9mr5184625wal.1193055997640; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.160.12 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:26:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <471C586A.9030900@op5.se> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/22/07, Andreas Ericsson wrote: [...] >>>>> On 10/20/07, Steffen Prohaska wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Maybe we could group commands into more categories? > Similarly, it might be helpful to have help topics the gdb way, like > "git help patches". It's one of those things that people have come to > expect from a software tool, so perhaps we should humor them? Given gits > "every help topic is a man-page" idiom, this shouldn't require any real > technical effort. > > Such topics should probably include > merge/merges/merging - overview of various ways of putting two lines of > development back together > patch/patches - how to create, send and apply > tags/branches/refs - what they are, why they're good, link to merging Very good idea. It is definitely something that can be worked on. By the way, what do you think about "spying" version of git, specially marked release which gathers statistics of porcelain used, with frequency of its use, and git-sendstats command added in this release? -- Jakub Narebski