From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Seth Falcon Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a". Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:24:16 -0800 Message-ID: References: <7vmz6cfsuw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <87bqmswm1e.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <7vodqse90q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <87ac2cwha4.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <7vy7pwcsgp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <878xhwwdyj.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <7vk61gcnzl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vd5786opj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <871wnnwi3k.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <7virgzuf38.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vr6vmsnly.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vzmaaozi8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <456DDADC.7030509@midwinter.com> <7vlkluoulf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:to:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=k/IyKgpEagzjNgZkRQUvU8B9ZHJ86znnaXqL+tp2R2R7ud4BSTG0FJaAz0KhcJeC7lhgZ5ZYfBMrF+re53gJ9kHDTUniVe+Tm8lN8+yWy3mYJkRT9pkY+Rr3Kjqr8ggFc154JmH3ytwsIFhd6Lr3rRdbi9Mi1XQjh7qq2OjrlgY= In-Reply-To: <7vlkluoulf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:39:56 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpeP6-0003kT-1g for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:24:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936187AbWK3FYH (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:24:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936188AbWK3FYH (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:24:07 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:17481 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936187AbWK3FYE (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:24:04 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so3132408nfa for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:24:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.4.17 with SMTP id 17mr7295013nfd.1164864243189; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:24:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ziti.fhcrc.org ( [67.171.24.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id r33sm10701474nfc.2006.11.29.21.24.02; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:24:03 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano writes: > My time is better spent on _listening_ to people who might want to > make convincing arguments to influence what I will end up deciding > (the final decision will be mine anyway). So I will add my $0.02: Summary: leave git-commit as-is I think the intimidation factor of the index is overstated. A scratch working area is a natural concept -- that's what people do who don't even _know_ what an scm is. I agree with Junio's description of commit -a as default breaking the mental model. I've played with three distributed scm: tla, hg, and git. I've stuck with git because, in part, it helped me to learn its more advanced features -- not because it was easiest to use intially out of the box. And if I'm not going to get something more than cvs or svn gives me, what's the point of switching in the first place? + seth