Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 16, 2008, 23:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807170120170.4318@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20080716220946.GC18558@leksak.fem-net>

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:

> I also think that for a user it is totally irrelevant if it is plumbing 
> or porcelain she is using, as long as it works. I mean, if I tought 
> someone using git, I'd never use the words "porcelain" or "plumbing".

So you would say that remembering the name "rev-parse" is just as easy as remembering "show"?

You want to say that --keep-dash-dash and --stat are on the same level, since both work? Somehow I don't think so.

Ciao, Dscho

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