From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:18:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Implement git-cp.
Message-ID: <vpq1w7jzthu.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlu9uu7c.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> If you touch builtin-mv.c already, why not just move cmd_cp() in there?  
>> It's not like it would be the first cmd_*() function living in the same 
>> file as other cmd_*() functions.
>
> Why do we even want "git-cp", especially when git-mv and git-rm
> are already pretty much redundant commands?
>
> Especially, why do we even encourage copy-and-paste?

I rarely (let's say: never ;-) ) copy-and-paste a C source file, but
there are tons of cases wher I start a file by copying another
(typically, a 10 lines long Makefile containing macro definitions and
an "include" statement, to be copied in each subdirectory and adapted
to reflect the source file name, or starting a .txt file based on a
skeleton).

I can very well live without a "git cp" command, but I'd use it if it
was available.

-- 
Matthieu