From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:43:32 GMT
Subject: Re: EasyGit Integration
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906091535520.31536@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <d411cc4a0906091159r51e7d16t4d66c6225322fb60@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Scott Chacon wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I have been playing with the EasyGit project lately and I have been
> really impressed.  I looked back to the last announcement here and the
> conversation didn't really go anywhere, sadly.  I thought it might be
> nice to adopt or at least consider a number of the design decisions
> they made in modifying the defaults and commands available.  Perhaps
> as a 1.7 goal or something?  I like it because it addresses a lot of
> the issues that I hear from beginning users:
[...]
> Does this resonate with anyone else?  Does 1.7 seem like a good goal
> for amending some of these things?  Completely redefining 'revert'
> seems like the only backward incompatible change - everything else is
> just wrappers and whatnot, I think.

Completely agreed.

This is indeed refreshing to see some of the git UI warts being 
addressed by people who simply aren't too used to them like I am.

And like you said, most of those changes don't create any 
incompatibilities and therefore could be fed back _piecemeal_ into the 
main git repository today without even requiring a major version bump.


Nicolas