Re: EasyGit [Was: Re: my git problem]

> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
>>  Or maybe go Elijah's route and invent a new top-level command name in
>>  which issues like this can get fixed. (I've been lukewarm on the idea
>>  after watching the cogito attempt eventually be abandoned. I'd really
>>  much rather see Elijah's ideas get pushed down into git itself for the
>>  most part. But it's tough when backwards-compatibility prevents fixing
>>  some things that are obviously confusing people.)
>
> Except my route really doesn't fix things like this since I also
> pushed for backwards compatibility.  You'll note that Havoc used
> EasyGit and Git interchangably (both in his description and probably
> on his projects), since all I've really done so far in EasyGit is
> * provide built-in tutorial-oriented documentation
> * check for common user mistakes and warn about them
> * add subcommand options in a way that breaks up the near cylic
> knowledge dependence of git subcommands so that they can be learned in
> a layered/hierarchical fashion
> * add some gratuitous svn-compatibility commands to ease the
> transition for svn users
>
> I agree that it would be nice to get this stuff (other than the last
> point that likely doesn't make sense for git-core) into git
> itself...if the community wants it.