From: Mike <xandrani@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:48:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Undo last commit?
Message-ID: <BANLkTinLMez=nv4fTcFWtqRb01231sMT1g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110630183830.GA4294@elie>

You have a great attitude to design (especially that of software).

I love it when people take feedback as a positive thing, and not as a
criticism! :)

2011/6/30 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Mike writes:
>
>>> I do think that git needs polishing in this way. It was designed by a
>>> very intelligent programmer... however they can sometimes be the worst
>>> at user interface design.
> [...]
>> Git is
>> very complex, and changing one little thing requires us to think about
>> how it'll affect everything else.
>
> Oh, dear.  No, I don't think these things are true at all (or at least I
> hope we act so as to make them not true).  In its history, just like Jakub
> likes to remind us now and then, git _evolved_.  To make it better, it
> should be sufficient to do three things:
>
>  1. When there is a small, obvious change that can make something
>    better, do it.
>
>  2. When there is a small, obvious change that can make git simpler
>    and more flexible (so other changes can become small and obvious),
>    do it.
>
>  3. When there is a big, possibly advantageous change, try it out
>    locally (e.g., on a branch).  If it turns out to work well, use it.
>
> While it is always nice to see people thinking carefully, none of the
> above necessarily requires thinking about all of git at once.  In
> particular, (2) suggests that any feature leading a well informed
> person to say "Git is very complex" is a bug.
>