Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce -t, --table for status/add commands
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- Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
- Date
- Oct 22, 2023, 06:52 UTC
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- <ZTS7YsxSE8UA+n4G.jacob@initialcommit.io>
On 2023-10-22 08:04, Jacob Stopak wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 04:28:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> You are not alone in feeling the impedance mismatch between the >> intended audience the patch(es) try to help (pointy-clicky GUI >> users) > > I'm sure there's overlap with "pointy-clicky GUI users" but my point > isn't to directly cater to them. I find it intersting to think about > how visual (and ok fine even gui) tools can be used as bridge tools > that can be discarded one the important concepts are solidified, and > maybe resurrected in a moment of stupidity or strife. > > It's like yes use the crutch if you need it, but then do it the real > way once you get it.
Quite frankly, that would be like starting to learn how to drive a car by playing GTA 5, or whichever version of GTA it currently popular. I don't think that would work out well for the vast majority of student drivers.
> And altho this is a visual helper feature, it keeps the user within the > terminal, close to the Git cli and may help some subset stay there.
Even if that would work out for some people, it would require the formatting into tables to be the default for git, which frankly I'd never support.