Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?

From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2007, 17:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20071127123346.o2e0jb9hc4k40w8o@intranet.digizenstudio.com>
In-Reply-To: <fiet88$68n$1@ger.gmane.org>

Quoting Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>:

>  - "index", "cached" and "stage" are a definite source of confusion

Hear, hear.

>  - "git add" and "git rm" would be nicer as "git stage" and "git unstage"
>    (or something similar)

Not sure it would be that easy. (As I have just learned recently) "git rm" is the opposite of "git add" _only_ in the case of files-not-previously-tracked. And the opposite of "git add <file>" for files-already-being-tracked is "git reset HEAD -- <file>", which is probably where you were going with "git unstage" 8-) .

>  - libgit would have come first
>  - "git revert" should be called "git invert"
>  - "git revert" would (maybe) be "git reset"
>  - "git clone" wouldn't exist

Why? AFAIC, git clone works out quite well - both functionality and naming wise.

Cheers.

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Jing Xue