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Re: git-add--interactive works only in top level

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 4, 2007, 11:48 UTC
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Hi,
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
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> El 4/12/2007, a las 7:22, Junio C Hamano escribi?:
> 
> > Reid Barton <rwbarton@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > 
> > > I understand that programs such as git-add--interactive will be 
> > > moved out of the executable path not too long from now, which will 
> > > also ameliorate the situation.
> > 
> > Honestly, there is nothing to ameliorate.  We do not even document 
> > git-add--interactive on purpose.
> > 
> > Once I saw somebody who somehow got a root account on a shared UNIX 
> > box and tryed running everything he found under /sbin one after 
> > another without understanding what he was doing.  Needless to say, the 
> > box did not last too long.  Somehow that "tab completion" comment 
> > reminds of him.
> 
> Here he have two options: blame the user for his/her stupidity, or look 
> at this a UI problem and try to make the UI "idiot proof".
> 
> In this particular case I see no impediment to favouring the second 
> option, because we're not talking about making changes that would make 
> Git less powerful or useful for "non-idiots", "power users" or "real 
> men" (whatever you want to call them). In other words, we are not 
> talking about "dumbing down" Git for the sake of the ignorant. This is 
> an opportunity to polish the UI in the same way that we polish the 
> internal pack format.
You know, without patches you will not convince me ;-)

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Reid BartonDec 4, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2007
  3. Reid BartonDec 4, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2007
  5. Wincent ColaiutaDec 4, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinDec 4, 2007
  7. Wincent ColaiutaDec 4, 2007
  8. Jakub NarebskiDec 4, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2007

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