Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2014, 03:58 UTC
Message-ID: <53588be5192d5_59ed83d30824@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1404232050340.14881@nftneq.ynat.uz>

David Lang wrote:

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> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 
> > David Lang wrote:
> >> agreed, of all the things that people complain about regarding learning git,
> >> the fact that the commands are words instead of cryptic 2 letter
> >> abberviations is not one of them.
> >
> > It is when they start to use Git seriously and type them a lot.
> 
> If that was such a significant factor, nobody would use Java with it's horribly 
> long function names.

There are these things called IDE's where people don't end up typing the whole function names. Take a look.

> People are far more bothered about all the switches to remember and the options 
> for them than they are the fact that they have to type entire words.

This is, again, a red herring. The fact that B is more important doesn't mean A shouldn't be done.

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Felipe Contreras