Re: Wishlist for branch management
- From
- H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
- Date
- Feb 1, 2010, 17:49 UTC
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- <20100201091907.GJ9553@machine.or.cz>
On 02/01/2010 01:19 AM, Petr Baudis wrote:
> I'm used to git symbolic-ref HEAD. I like the fact that human-friendly > and scripting interfaces are mostly separated to different commands.
It's makes the learning curve for scripting git unnecessarily large. Furthermore, it's rather unrealistic for people who are not git people to follow this dictum -- I have seen the git scripts that the kernel people write, including myself, and they generally tend to use the same commands they're used to using themselves.
So I think it's actually a really bad UI design. It helps making clear what is scriptable (stable) and what isn't, but expecting people to use a different mental rubric when scripting than when working on the command line is completely unrealistic.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.