From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Minor annoyance with git push Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:26:11 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <46a038f90802072044u3329fd33w575c689cba2917ee@mail.gmail.com> <20080209030046.GA10470@coredump.intra.peff.net> <6B804F0D-9C3B-46F3-B922-7A5CBEF55522@zib.de> <7v7ihd7ee1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <0DE4061C-7189-4932-AA3D-D09009F753F2@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1463811741-893564571-1202660773=:11591" Cc: Junio C Hamano , Steffen Prohaska , Jeff King , Martin Langhoff , Git Mailing List To: Wincent Colaiuta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 10 17:26:49 2008 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 1JOF0z-0003ue-73 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:26:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751075AbYBJQ0M (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:26:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751112AbYBJQ0M (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:26:12 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58865 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751055AbYBJQ0L (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:26:11 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2008 16:26:09 -0000 Received: from host86-138-198-40.range86-138.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.138.198.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp036) with SMTP; 10 Feb 2008 17:26:09 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18Y3QRptP4Y1dJqpdobvomjcAE8YX6w62ldFFsMlY S82lojivqEaz1n X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <0DE4061C-7189-4932-AA3D-D09009F753F2@wincent.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1463811741-893564571-1202660773=:11591 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Hi, On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > El 10/2/2008, a las 3:15, Johannes Schindelin escribió: > > > I'm no longer that sure. It seems that quite a lot of people do not > > read manuals, and have no clue what they are doing when they just try > > > > $ git push > > > > to see what the synopsis is. > > I think there's no way we should be catering for people who type command > like "git push" just to see what the synopsis does. > > The verb "push" very clearly has connotations of a state-changing, > possibly irreversible action (unlike other verbs like "log" or "show"). The problem is that "push" alone does not really imply which kind of push. Besides, not everybody can be expected to be such an uber-git as you and me. Ciao, Dscho ---1463811741-893564571-1202660773=:11591--