From: Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:25:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Usability question
Message-ID: <9accb4400909170625v35e112f6i66d79282d2433c49@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqy6odhn0d.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

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