From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 07:36:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/GSOC] Git Beginner | Warnings for potentially destructive commands
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xoy0OqnEiHZAtWbMsqL6SUO7n1DRHTj_DMJEN3y5JKZoQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqfuvdi87u.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> If possible, I would suggest aiming for generating the actual topology
>> that the user is seeing, customized so that it gives relevenat
>> information, rather than static examples.
>
> Using the real topology in a useful way is actually pretty hard. It's
> quite easy to throw the output of "git log --graph --oneline ..." to the
> user, but as soon as the rebase deals with more than a handfull of
> commits, we'd want to simplify the history to show something
> understandable to the user (which by definition should be a beginner if
> he uses ggit), like replacing long sequences of commits with "..." or
> so. That is hard to get right.
>

Yes, in which case we should go Junio's route of not using anything
from the real topology.

Thanks,
Jake