Re: svn versus git

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andy Parkins wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 2006 December 13 22:56, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>>>
>>>>   git cat-file -p $REV:$file
>>>>
>>>> not sure how much easier it gets than that.  Load in the bash
>>>> completion from contrib/completion and you can even tab complete
>>>> the $file part.
>>> Yes.  I was a little unfair on that one; I forgot about the REV:file syntax.  
>>> However, it's still not simple for a new user; I think I'd say "draw" if 
>>> the "-p" weren't a requirement.
>>   $ git repo-config alias.less "-p cat-file -p"
>>   $ git repo-config alias.cat     "cat-file -p"
>>
>> remedies that.
>>
>> [...]
>>>> How is it unfriendly?  What specifically would you change to make
>>>> it more friendly?
>>> $ git-ls-tree v1.0.0
>>> 100644 blob 906e98492080d2fde9467a9970fc92d7a8cfeaf8    Makefile
> 
>>> I'm a newbie: what's that number at the front?  What's a blob?  What's
>>> that great big number - I've only seen commit hashes that look like
>>> that, and that isn't one.  Definitely not friendly.
> 
>> The number in front is octal mode of a file or directory. "blob"
>> is a file (or symbolic link), "tree" is a directory, all of this
>> can be found in git(7).
> 
> I don't want to come through as rude, but that you can find the explanation
> somewhere (and as an old(ish) Unix/git hand you know (or should be able to
> guess easily) what it means) doesn't help the _newbie_ confronted with this
> gibberish one iota.