From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area' Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:03:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20130829180129.GA4880@nysa> <521f998d25eb4_174378fe7481879@nysa.mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Piotr Krukowiecki , Jay Soffian , Miles Bader , Jonathan Nieder , Philip Oakley , Ramkumar Ramachandra , Scott Chacon To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 29 23:04:28 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VF9OC-0007fJ-0b for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:04:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756021Ab3H2VET (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:04:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:59456 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753696Ab3H2VES (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:04:18 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r7TL3sTa004934 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:03:55 +0200 Received: from anie.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VF9Nl-0003vv-66; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:03:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: <521f998d25eb4_174378fe7481879@nysa.mail> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:57:17 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:03:56 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: r7TL3sTa004934 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1378415036.56227@/HGtor7LGqIhaSqrPxNq9A Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras writes: > Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> --work alone sounds weird. At least to me, it does not immediately imply >> "working tree". It is tempting to call the option --work-tree, but git >> already has a global option with that name (git --work-tree=foo bar). > > Yes, --work sounds weird, but so does --cherry. I thought about --wt, but I > felt --work was more understandable, and --work-tree doesn't really give much > more value, I think it does: I understand --work as "the verb to work", so "git reset --work" sounds like "tell 'git reset' to work", while "git reset --work-tree" sounds like "tell git to reset the work tree". > except more characters to type =/ Then, we can have --work-tree and a short version -w. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/