From: Baz <brian.ewins@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:34:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add contrib/stg-gitk: helper script to run gitk
Message-ID: <2faad3050701100234g1580d344lcc84b143ee965a23@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070109220332.GD17093@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>

On 09/01/07, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
> (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