From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:29:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Implement git-cp.
Message-ID: <200802101429.04765.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlu9uu7c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

söndagen den 10 februari 2008 skrev Junio C Hamano:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > If you touch builtin-mv.c already, why not just move cmd_cp() in there?  
> > It's not like it would be the first cmd_*() function living in the same 
> > file as other cmd_*() functions.
> 
> Why do we even want "git-cp", especially when git-mv and git-rm
> are already pretty much redundant commands?
> 
> Especially, why do we even encourage copy-and-paste?

We do not. I've seen too much damage being done through copy/paste. A
much better (safer) way to copy code is to re-type it. I've asked more
than once, when asked to help debug a piece of code: "Did you copy this 
code?".

For this reason I have a vision of a "plugin" for Eclipse that disables paste
if the clipboard contains copied code. Cut and paste would be ok.

-- robin