From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Deprecate git-fetch-pack? Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:16:13 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7v4pftip42.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <74415967-7F49-426C-8BF5-1A0210C337AB@develooper.com> <7vd4ugcwkm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071111222117.GA7392@thunk.org> <7vabpkbebj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071111235819.GB7392@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 12 01:16:46 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 1IrMyr-00048O-Q6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:16:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755609AbXKLAQa convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:16:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755601AbXKLAQa (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:16:30 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39773 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752748AbXKLAQ3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:16:29 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IrMyW-0005dT-38 for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:16:24 +0000 Received: from abwz76.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.8.249.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:16:24 +0000 Received: from jnareb by abwz76.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:16:24 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: abwz76.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Theodore Tso wrote: > 2) The command which are displayed by "git help" should use some > serious rethinking. =A0Ideally, it would be nice if the output fit in= a > single 24-line terminal window. =A0 Some candidates for removal: >=20 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0a) prune: "git prune" definitely doesn't deserve to be= on the > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0front and center as displayed by "git help". =A0Maybe = replace it > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0with "gc", but now that we have gc.auto, I'm not sure = it's > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0worth it at all. I would replace it by "git gc" (you have to run 'git gc --prune' by han= d on quiescent repository), or remove it altogether. > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0b) revert: =A0Is that really that common of a command? It is useful command, perhaps short description should be improved. BTW. if we have cherry-pick, then we should have revert. > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0c) show-branch: The output is terrifying without expla= nation I agree. I would replace it by gitk, or gui (git-gui / "git gui"). > There are other commands I'm not so sure about, but it is worth > flagging them. =A0One way that might be helpful is to group the comma= nds > into subcommands, much like gdb does, so you could do something like > "git help other-repos" (where all commands that involve interacting > with other repositories are summarized), and so on. I think that "git-rm" could be removed, because "rm ; git commit = =2E.." works just fine. See also discussion about results of Git User's Survey 2007, somewhere around http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/59935/focus=3D= 62205 --=20 Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git