From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:33:13 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <8fe92b430710081355i7d3dbaa2q9a8939b55d7ca7dc@mail.gmail.com> <1192827476.4522.93.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> <4719B655.90204@op5.se> <8fe92b430710201606i47e85b24k17abd819bf0d353b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Steffen Prohaska , Andreas Ericsson , Federico Mena Quintero , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 21 04:23:46 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 1IjQTh-0006KU-25 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:23:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750969AbXJUCXe (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:23:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750921AbXJUCXe (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:23:34 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55391 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750831AbXJUCXd (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:23:33 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2007 23:33:30 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp057) with SMTP; 21 Oct 2007 01:33:30 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/khi0YMYTk4ip/nlD2ZqF0tD5+LdE0TNjK87wSWz eAmBA+HOd3RH07 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <8fe92b430710201606i47e85b24k17abd819bf0d353b@mail.gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > On 10/20/07, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > > Maybe we could group commands into more categories? > > > > plumbing: should be hidden from the 'normal' user. Porcelain > > should be sufficient for every standard task. > > The problem is division between what is porcelain and what is plumbing. > Some commands are right on border (git-fsck, git-update-index, > git-rev-parse comes to mind). Sorry, but my impression from the latest mails was that the commands are fine. What is lacking is a nice, _small_ collection of recommended workflows. And when we have agreed on such a set of workflows, we optimize the hell out of them. Only this time it is not performance, but user-friendliness. Hmm? Ciao, Dscho