Re: [RFC/PATCH] revision.c: add --format option for 'git log'

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 24, 2009, 01:03 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530902231703n701a17dbkd20c0e14d759dddf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530902231656l71ee0e45nbdd1c20035d3dd4@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> It's not breakage that needs to be fixed, it's UI improvement,...
>>> ... Don't you
>>> think that --format=email is more natural than --pretty=email?
>>
>> That heavily depends on when you ask.
>>
>> If it _were_ during the period when we were actively building this
>> bikeshed, then I would have said "yeah, that color looks prettier".
>>
>> But a proposal to repaint the bikeshed in a different color long after it
>> was built needs to be supported by an argument that is much stronger than
>> "I do not like the current one, I am improving it by painting in a better
>> color."  IOW, you came too late to just bikeshed.
>>
>> People already are used to finding the shed in the scenery by looking for
>> that original color, however ugly the color might be.  The answer to your
>> question has to become quite different when you take that into account;
>> otherwise you are being irresponsible to your users.

People somehow got used to the ugly color, they'll get used to the pretty one, in fact, they would probably like it better, and maybe even thought more than once on changing it.

If they're the kind of people that don't like new things they'll probably not be using git anyway.

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Felipe Contreras