On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Scott Chacon<schacon@xxxxxxxxx> 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: > > * breaks the various things that 'checkout' does into separate > commands - moves 'revert' to doing what 'checkout -- path' does, moves > current 'revert' to 'cherry-pick --revert' (which someone mentioned > was a good idea at the last GitTogether), and adds 'unstage' for > 'reset HEAD file'. also adds a '-s' option to 'branch' to switch to > the branch after you create it, which many people expect rather than > 'checkout -b'. I like 'git unstage', but not the rest. > * adds 'git resolved' for 'git add', which I hear all the time as > being confusing I would prefer 'git stage'; 'git resolved' seems to be meant for a very particular case: resolve conflicts, it would be much better to learn that you can do 'git stage' at any time. <snip/> > * 'git backout' for 'git reset HEAD^' I don't like that. Looks like a very specialized case. It's much better to learn this particular use of 'git reset'. > * 'git push origin --delete <branch>' for 'git push origin :branch' That would be really good, it took me a lot of time to find that idiom. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html