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Re: Usability question

From
DSDaniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 17, 2009, 13:25 UTC
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<9accb4400909170625v35e112f6i66d79282d2433c49@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Rob Barrett <barrettboy@gmail.com> wrote:
> When starting with git people almost always ask some variant of "how
> do I know whether this option should be prefixed with dashes or not?"
> i.e. git reset --hard vs. git stash save --patch, which coupled with
> other path, sha and treeish args make things a bit more confusing.
> And people stop asking the question after they get used to git - but
> that's not the same as being usable.

without speaking of usability I'll tell them to use autocompletion to see which command / options they have until they get used to them

regards, Daniele

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  3. SZEDER GáborSep 17, 2009
  4. Matthieu MoySep 17, 2009
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  6. Rob BarrettSep 20, 2009
  7. Dmitry PotapovSep 20, 2009
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