From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:13:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Usability question
Message-ID: <20090917121328.GA21837@neumann>
In-Reply-To: <vpqy6odhn0d.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:41:06PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Rob Barrett <barrettboy@gmail.com> writes:
> > 1. What is the distinction that makes the 10% special enough to get
> > non-prefixed options?
> 
> Prefixed and non-prefixed is what people usually call respectively
> "options" and "subcommands". To me, the distinction is needed:
> 
> Options are flags that modify the behavior of a git command. For
> example, "git reset" and "git reset --hard" do something similar, but
> "git svn rebase" and "git svn dcommit" do something really, totally
> different. It's not about doing the same thing in a different way,
> it's really about different actions.

I tend to aggree, but what about 'git rebase --abort' vs. 'git rebase
--continue'?  IMHO they are also doing something totally different.


Best,
Gábor