From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>,
Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>, git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: EasyGit Integration
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:31:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94a0d4530906101531ja6f1deeob703f546d62e7599@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906092058430.6847@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Linus
Torvalds<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
>>
>> My personal opinion is this kind of overloading is actually more
>> confusing than simply adding a new name, such as "git revert-file".
>
> I'd agree, except I think it actually worked pretty well in "git
> checkout".
>
> The alternative was to add yet another command for that, or to teach
> people about the internal commands we did have. Adding the capability for
> checkout to check out individual files - in addition to commits and
> branches - I think worked pretty well.
Why? What makes 'git checkout <commit>' and 'git checkout <commit> --
<path>' similar at all? I would expect 'git checkout <commit>' to be
the same as 'git checkout <commit> -- .'
In my mind these are 2 completely different commands.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-10 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 18:59 EasyGit Integration Scott Chacon
2009-06-09 19:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-06-09 19:52 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-06-09 20:37 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 20:42 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-06-10 12:13 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 20:49 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 1:09 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-09 20:12 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 20:40 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-09 21:18 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 21:27 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-09 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-09 21:48 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-09 22:00 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 12:52 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-06-09 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-09 22:30 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-09 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 0:40 ` Mark Lodato
2009-06-10 3:11 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-10 3:32 ` Theodore Tso
2009-06-10 4:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 22:31 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2009-06-10 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 23:57 ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-11 0:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-11 0:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-11 0:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-12 20:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-12 21:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-12 21:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-12 22:05 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-12 22:30 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-13 1:24 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-06-11 0:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-10 4:20 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 14:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-06-10 1:25 ` Sam Vilain
2009-06-10 1:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-10 2:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-10 2:52 ` Sam Vilain
2009-06-10 6:43 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-10 3:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-06-10 20:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-10 22:28 ` Elijah Newren
2009-06-10 16:48 ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-10 22:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-06-10 22:04 ` Felipe Contreras
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