Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2006, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <200611151902.16358.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqn8o9st.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wednesday 2006, November 15 18:16, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I still think in the long run you would be better off giving
> separate names to Porcelains because I am sure you are going to

The problem I think with that is that the line between plumbing and porcelain is not clear. If you have two names then for the ambiguous ones you are just making it more confusing because there is yet another variable to try before you get the function you want.

Andy

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Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE

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