Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 16, 2006, 03:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7ixwgj2d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

(not changing what I said but editorial)

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> I myself do prefer, when learning a new tool, to use longhand
> until I understand the shorthand, but that attitude requires a
> true commitment to learn the tool, and most people do not go
> that route.  Tutorial style documents tend to give the commonly
> used shorthand first for that exact reason.

Eh, sorry, "prefer to use longhand until I understand what is going on before using the shorthand" is what I wanted to say.

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> Shorthand to give only the branch name to fetch and merge
> immediately without using a tracking branch is equivalent to
> longhand "branch:" as you found out, so if that was what was
> desired then people with the attitude "before understanding what
> longhand does I prefer using shorthand" like myself and you

"prefer not using shorthand", sorry again.

> would have liked to learn "git pull url branch:" notation from
> Tutorial.  But I think we _are_ minority.  People would not want
> to see that seemingly useless colon there.