From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Missing features in git Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:50:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20061114195559.40967ee4.froese@gmx.de> <20061114213800.28716.qmail@science.horizon.com> <20061115073546.GD5453@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1463790079-160515427-1163609426=:3349" NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:52:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: linux@horizon.com, git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <20061115073546.GD5453@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.156 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkNzO-0000F9-BD for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:51:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030696AbWKOQvu (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:51:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030699AbWKOQvu (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:51:50 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:43394 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030696AbWKOQvt (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:51:49 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id kAFGoToZ008891 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:50:29 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id kAFGoQfT017856; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:50:27 -0800 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karl_Hasselstr=F6m?= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1463790079-160515427-1163609426=:3349 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Karl Hasselström wrote: > On 2006-11-14 16:38:00 -0500, linux@horizon.com wrote: > > > It also removes a paragraph of excuses from some "using git" docs > > I'm writing. It's a lot easier to explain why you can't commit if > > you're not on a branch than to explain why you can't not be on a > > branch. > > This is precisely why writing documentation is such a good idea: It is > in many cases easier to fix the warts than finding a pedagogical way > to explain them. :-) Heh. Pretty much all of the early git plumbing came about when I started to try to demonstrate git to others, and wrote some of the early tutorials. So yeah, trying to explain something to others (whether by documentation or through examples) is a good way to show what has bad interfaces. Even if it's easy to use for yourself (I had my own scripts to do everything _I_ wanted to do), trying to explain why something is done some way to somebody who doesn't know the internals is always a good exercise. Linus