From: Sébastien Guimmara Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 20:08:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] git help: group common commands by theme Message-ID: <554D17AD.9070306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 05/08/2015 08:58 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sébastien Guimmara writes: > >> On 05/07/2015 11:31 AM, Emma Jane Hogbin Westby wrote: >> >>>> The most commonly used git commands are: >>>> >>>> * starting a working area: >>>> clone Clone a repository into a new directory >>>> init Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize [...] >>>> >>>> * working on the current change: >>>> add Add file contents to the index >>>> reset Reset current HEAD to the specified state >>> I could not live without status at this stage, and status always tells >>> me what I should do next. I'm tempted to see it up here instead... >> >> The layout was not designed to be workflow oriented (even if it appears >> so), but rather theme oriented. > > I tend to agree with Emma here; even if your original ordering was > not using the workflow as the grouping criterion, that is something > that can easily be fixed, I would think. > > After all, the very original did not categorize and sorted > alphabetically, so there is no room for the "we chose to be > theme-oriented (I am not sure what it means, though) and a major > redesign at this point will confuse users" kind of resistance to > come into the picture. At least not yet. > > Thanks. > Exactly. The new version will be workflow-oriented. By "theme-oriented", I mean that the group order does not necessarily follow a "typical workflow" chronological order, even though it was heavily implied. I should emphasize this "workflow" thing in the next patch.