Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-what: explain what to do next

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 27 May 2008, Santi Béjar wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 27 May 2008, Santi Béjar wrote:
>> >
>> >> In case you don't know the next step, if it is "git commit", "git
>> >> commit --amend", "git rebase --continue" or something else.
>> >
>> > We had a patch similar to this already, but I think that the right
>> > approach is _not_ to teach the single commands to explain their state,
>> > but to make a new script guessing the current state.
>>
>> I think it belongs to each command to know the state, but I have no
>> problem with the single command approach.
>>
>> >  AFAIR we have something like that in the completions already, as an
>> > (optional) prompt.
>>
>> Thanks. And they do it a bit different, I'll use it if it is better than
>> mine.
>>
>> >
>> > However, I think it would make sense to push for that
>> > .dotest,.git/.dotest-merge -> .git/rebase change _before_ having
>> > anything like git-whazzup.sh.
>>
>> That's a problem of the single command approach.
>
> Sure it is.  But cluttering up the commands for something that is not
> really proven to be wanted by many is IMO inferior.