From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:15:19 GMT
Subject: Re: obnoxious CLI complaints
Message-ID: <20090911031519.GA6385@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <7vbpliaaxo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 2009.09.10 11:53:23 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > First, it would be consistent with how ordinary archivers such as tar
> > or zip are used, where you have to specify list of files to archive
> > (in our case this list is HEAD).  Second, I'd rather not accidentally
> > dump binary to terminal: "git archive [HEAD]" dumps archive to standard
> > output.
> 
> So does "cat".  I do not agree with your second point.

"cat $some_binary" does, not just "cat". I guess Jakub's point was that
a command without arguments shouldn't just put some binary crap onto
your screen. Of course, "git archive HEAD" still does that, but I kind
of he where he's coming from, being one of those that tends to run
"$some_command" without arguments, just to see if it shows me some sort
of short help.

Björn