From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 23:42:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] git-rebase -i: Add key word "drop" to remove a commit
Message-ID: <68A62E92218D4FD4A71EA138C9F3725A@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsiahltbu.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> I find it weird to write
>>
>> noop <sha1> <title>
>
> True, but then it can be spelled
>
>    # <sha1> <title>
>
> too, so do we still want 'drop'?  Unless we have a strong reason to
> believe migrants from Hg cannot be (re)trained, personally, I'd feel
> that we do not need this 'drop' thing.
>
To me, the addition of "drop" would be a better completion of the list 
of action verbs for 'normal' users.

Training/Retraining users to use atypical techniques is a never ending 
task, so making drop a synonym for the existing noop appeals to my 
experience of users (of all sorts of tools, including personal 
experience ;-).

--
Philip