From: Felipe Contreras Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:12:52 GMT Subject: Re: What is missing from Git v2.0 Message-ID: <53588f448d817_59ed83d3084e@nysa.notmuch> In-Reply-To: James Denholm wrote: > Felipe Contreras wrote: > > It is when they start to use Git seriously and type them a lot. > > Felipe, I think you refute your own point here, because people _learning_ git > aren't power-users. They might be one day, but not that day. If power-users > are complaining that "commit" is too long, but aren't setting their own > aliases, This is a false dichotomy; there aren't just two kinds of Git users. There is such a category of Git users who are not fresh-out-of-the-boat, yet not power users either. > it's quite possible they just don't know about aliases. Because if they > _did_ know about aliases, they'd set one. Unless the aliases are already there by default. And if default aliases were such a bad idea, why do most (all?) version control systems out there have them? -- Felipe Contreras