From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: git-add--interactive works only in top level Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:48:57 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <058EB5A2-1EFE-43B9-9886-7272A955CE51@mit.edu> <7vwsrv9fos.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <4BC1648E-3059-4373-B388-65AD739796D8@MIT.EDU> <7vmysr9dxg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <9AADB5DF-15FA-4A5F-BF4B-509135E486B6@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Reid Barton , git@vger.kernel.org To: Wincent Colaiuta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 04 12:49:55 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 1IzWHb-0006pa-Vd for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:49:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753527AbXLDLt2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 06:49:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752446AbXLDLt2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 06:49:28 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:41763 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753357AbXLDLt1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 06:49:27 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Dec 2007 11:49:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 04 Dec 2007 12:49:23 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+X6dtjvruX1b2URVQetcANw1zpQUut7fEqLrKBxy jeVwYjrsO/YOIf X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <9AADB5DF-15FA-4A5F-BF4B-509135E486B6@wincent.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > El 4/12/2007, a las 7:22, Junio C Hamano escribi?: > > > Reid Barton writes: > > > > > I understand that programs such as git-add--interactive will be > > > moved out of the executable path not too long from now, which will > > > also ameliorate the situation. > > > > Honestly, there is nothing to ameliorate. We do not even document > > git-add--interactive on purpose. > > > > Once I saw somebody who somehow got a root account on a shared UNIX > > box and tryed running everything he found under /sbin one after > > another without understanding what he was doing. Needless to say, the > > box did not last too long. Somehow that "tab completion" comment > > reminds of him. > > Here he have two options: blame the user for his/her stupidity, or look > at this a UI problem and try to make the UI "idiot proof". > > In this particular case I see no impediment to favouring the second > option, because we're not talking about making changes that would make > Git less powerful or useful for "non-idiots", "power users" or "real > men" (whatever you want to call them). In other words, we are not > talking about "dumbing down" Git for the sake of the ignorant. This is > an opportunity to polish the UI in the same way that we polish the > internal pack format. You know, without patches you will not convince me ;-) Ciao, Dscho