Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-what: explain what to do next

["Steven Walter" <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl> wrote:
>> Santi B?jar wrote:
>>>On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Johannes Schindelin
>>><Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> Sure it is.  But cluttering up the commands for something that is not
>>>> really proven to be wanted by many is IMO inferior.

WANT.

>>>This is an argument against git-whatzzup.sh in general. Point taken.
>>
>> Not really.  It's an argument against cluttering up the existing core
>> with this stuff.

The only changes I saw were to porcelain, not plumbing (or is this not
what you mean by "core?")  I see no problem with making the plumbing
more user-friendly.  That is really the only point of the porcelain.
If you don't want user-friendly, use the plumbing directly.

> It is not a hands-on tutorial, it is more of "in which state (merging,
> bisecting,...) is my working tree, if it is in the middle of a complex
> process (bisect, merge, rebase,...) tell me what was the help
> message". It is not that different from the output of "git status",
> but for states.

Surely it has happened to everyone that you start a rebase, walk away
and then continue hacking and committing with the rebase still in
progress.  It isn't too bad for an experienced user to recover from
this state, but prevention is much better than cure.  A simple "git
what" command that could remind you of what you were doing would be a
welcome addition, in my mind.
-- 
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