From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:53:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Cogito nit: cg-update should default to "origin".
Message-ID: <20050428005337.GA3422@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <42702F20.3050200@dwheeler.com>

Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:32:32AM CEST, I got a letter
where "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> told me that...
> Minor nit on Cogito: I think cg-update should default to "origin",
> not the head, if you leave it unspecified.  Instead, add an
> option flag to specify the HEAD.  The origin seems (to me)
> to be a MUCH more common situation (and thus the better default).

Actually, I wasn't too happy with the current update-to-HEAD special
case. Sure, it's similar to SVN, but SVN's concepts are totally
different here, and this special case wart (which does really do
something entirely different than normal cg-update) is one of the
Cogito-related shadows in my mind. What about moving this special case
to something like

	cg-restore

and changing the defaulting of update and pull back to 'origin'? I think
people do this cg-update without arguments so seldom that changing this
now shouldn't hurt much, right?

Another thing is to UI-wise maintain clear difference between cg-cancel
and cg-restore. Do you think the names are distinctive enough? Any
better naming ideas?

Thanks,

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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