From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>,
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:04:28 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612022302540.2630@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612021805.09143.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Alan Chandler wrote:
> The argument I was _trying_ to make was that we should teach the second
> conceptual model not the first one AND stick with just the git add command
> (in response to your (Carl's) statement earlier in the thread that there
> needs to be two separate commands) . My if statements were to illustrate
> that there are two fundamental ways of looking at this, not lots of ifs that
> newbies would have to consider. We should up-front (in the tutorial, in
> appropriate man pages) use the one conceptual model (and I also like Junio's
> argument that git should take an aggressive stance of this is how the
> conceptual model is rather than the "contrary to ..." approach).
Agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-03 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-01 20:06 [PATCH] make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-01 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-02 0:18 ` Alan Chandler
2006-12-02 2:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-02 3:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-02 6:54 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-02 7:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-02 9:06 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-02 10:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-02 14:51 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-12-02 8:28 ` Alan Chandler
2006-12-02 16:49 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-02 17:12 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-02 18:05 ` Alan Chandler
2006-12-03 4:04 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2006-12-03 4:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-03 4:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-02 9:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-03 5:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-03 5:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-03 9:16 ` Alan Chandler
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