From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sverre Rabbelier" Subject: Re: [PATCH] When a remote is added but not fetched, tell the user. Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:20:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20080409101428.GA2637@elte.hu> <1207869946-17013-1-git-send-email-g2p.code@gmail.com> <20080411203501.7095b866@localhost> <20080411190816.GA17277@mithlond> <7v4pa8rs00.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vbq4gouej.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: sverre@rabbelier.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Teemu Likonen" , Gabriel , "Johannes Schindelin" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Junio C Hamano" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 12 01:21:27 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 1JkSYZ-0001tP-AB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:21:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755809AbYDKXUf (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:20:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755827AbYDKXUf (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:20:35 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.174]:36585 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755808AbYDKXUe (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:20:34 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so691556wff.4 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:20:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=wivJAIYzVh1S+eB/TRkAzx2Zc1pzspE+gYYwRCJO9IY=; b=KQVKtiw3P4dIJ1QtcZ35MbEbdFlAA1LIqJFwpc4i4erFLogCE0bHeFUMxoYp9v0q9poQBm3NcLt7pK+SR8pjMf7SlmdHE9/hf+SMlyr8qdgc9OPmn/SCX29R6vXvzROzKu250qYq+maXIoVy7DBSqsYeDDElDqv6X0zBIar0DsU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tjjMfKZFXJP4Cv+2SLj84/KV5eGttESgobwgnmi3tPyqJwfXgJ/cSX2zY3AwH9MZtnzrRrnczxyRfnTv8aGeHY4ignEoJtYRRYwAFHlEXu+KkoIuOSbeYk28LNSzisZs+eyYTbGs5BcD+dLpycusXzBO9ycIjexpSTmwg1gdWsI= Received: by 10.142.211.10 with SMTP id j10mr969851wfg.202.1207956034597; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:20:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.33.6 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:20:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vbq4gouej.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Yeah, I am not sure if that should be called --verbose, but a "training > wheel" mode of operation somebody else mentioned the other day that echoes > back what the command thinks it was told to do by the user, together with > help text that explains what other things the user could have told to the > command to enrich its operation, might be an interesting addition. Hmmm, I'm not sure about '--verbose' as a name either, but it -is- usually used to display more information about the command(s) being executed. E.g.: -v, --verbose explain what is being done http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?mv Sounds pretty much like what we're doing, explaining what command we thing is being executed. The extra text OTOH with 'possible other workflow suggestions' doesn't quite fit in the '--verbose' picture. Perhaps a different kind of command, like '--newbie' (or, less humiliating, '--explain') would be more appropriate.