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Re: UI issues

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
May 5, 2012, 15:59 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
> in a interesting discussion in G+ Dscho raised a few issues in the GIT UI.
> I think there is value in summarizing the thread and opening a new
> discussion here:
> - short names for uncommon operation, long names for common ones (e.g.
> cherry vs cherry-pick)
> - lack of undo
> - the usual discussion about the terms index, staging area and the
> "add" command. They all look not consistent.
> - 'git remote' has sub commands 'rename' (but not 'mv') and 'rm' (but
> not 'remove')
> - git remote add -f blub WRONG_URL fails but you still have to remove
> the remote before you can try again to add something.

So they are not lost: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/UiIdeas

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Felipe Contreras
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  1. Paolo CiarrocchiApr 26, 2012
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