Re: [git-users] Highlevel (but simple to implement) commands provided by default for git

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 30, 2013, 15:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2G3NVUyVViF2NP0TEEuGLp-3z+xf-uhsjC-Np80WA-tA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130530145447.GC4884@elie.Belkin>

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> A bigger problem (in my opinion) with allowing arbitrary changes to
>>>>> the meaning of existing commands is that scripts, whether placed in
>>>>> .sh files or given as commands to run over IRC, stop working
>>>>> altogether.  It's nice to have commands like "git log" and "git am"
>>>>> mean the same thing no matter what machine I am on.
>>>>
>>>> Except that's not true:
>>>
>>> It's not true that my opinion is that a bigger problem than the
>>> non-problem Ram mentioned with allowing arbitrary changes to the
>>> meaning of existing commands is that scripts stop working reliably?
>>
>> It's not true what you said:
>>
>> commands like "git log" and "git am" mean the same thing no matter
>> what machine I am on.
>
> It's not true that it's nice when they do?

Yeah, it's nice that the sun is purple. Never-mind the fact that it's not true.

The consistency you experience across machines has absolutely nothing to do with Git, since Git can be configured in a way you don't consider nice.

So this argument is invalid. Any proposed change to make Git more configurable is not affected by this argument, because Git can *already* be configured in a way that would break your experience, yet it doesn't happen.

In other words; it's the policy or your machine users you have to thank for, not Git's code, and changing Git's code is not going to change that policy.

Either way this is a straw man, again, nobody is pushing to allow builtins to be overridable.

The topic is default *aliases*.

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Felipe Contreras