From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 08:48:14 GMT
Subject: Re: do people use the 'git' command?
Message-ID: <2cfc4032050611014878d54c71@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vu0k5xrfz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

> I grant you that what the current "git" wrapper offers is not
> Porcelain enough, and to perform anything meaningful you either
> need to use Porcelain or bare Plumbing commands yourself.  But
> when that day comes, "git update-cache" is not something you
> would want to have anyway.  You would rather want to have things
> like "git add" and "git remove", which are written in terms of
> git-update-cache.
> 
> See what I am saying?

Ok, that's fair enough. It is a sound to expose bits of plumbing to
the porcelain in a very slow and deliberate way as the porcelain is
polished, rather than automatically surfacing plumbing as it gets
created by over-enthusiastic plumbers.

My own learning experience has been exactly the other way around to
the intended use of the git script - I have been learning to use the
core git commands, writing my own wrappers where that is convenient
and adopting those of others only when I completely understand what
they are doing - I have been learning it inside out, I guess.

For example, I only recently discovered what git-commit-script does  [
and I like it - btw - nice behaviour ]!

jon.
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