From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] 'git cat-file' needs a better design on its option interface
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:30:32 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909241528110.4997@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqy6o4kv24.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> > 'git cat-file' is really really low-level plumbing. Humans should
> > generally never use it.
>
> ... except to understand Git better ;-). I enjoyed being able to to a
> 'git cat-file' on a tree or commit object when I started with Git.
In the context of learning git at that level, the current option
interface for cat-file shouldn't look too strange though.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 15:04 [RFC] 'git cat-file' needs a better design on its option interface Li Hong
2009-09-24 16:48 ` Jeff King
2009-09-24 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-24 19:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-24 19:30 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2009-09-25 2:33 ` Li Hong
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