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Re: [PATCH] Add contrib/stg-gitk: helper script to run gitk

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Baz <brian.ewins@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2007, 10:34 UTC
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On 09/01/07, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
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> (let's go off-topic)
>
> That makes me think that such command names like "show" are a bit too
> general: stgit uses "show" for patches, but nothing says it is for a
> patch and not a series.
>
> Also, when presenting GIT/StGIT to co-workers, I found them to be
> confused by eg. "stg push" and "stg commit" having different semantics
> than "git push" and "git commit".

They're also confusing because the stg docs and other stg commands consistently talk about patches being 'applied' or 'unapplied', not 'pushed'. If stg push/pop were to make sense as single commands they would be eg stg apply/unapply, or stg patch-apply, stg patch-unapply.

Cheers, Baz

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