Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> >> Yes.  The current "merge" started its life as Linus's porcelain
> >> (we did not have fetch and pull infrastructure back then) but
> >> quickly has become just a helper for pull to produce a merge
> >> commit.  If anybody thinks its UI is good as a general end-user
> >> level command, there is a need for "head examination".
> > 
> > If you mean "git merge" it sure needs to be brought forward.  It can't 
> > be clearer than:
> > 
> >       git-merge the_other_branch
> > 
> > or
> > 
> >       git-merge git://repo.com/time_machine.git
> > 
> > to instantaneously understand what is going on.
> 
> You mean
> 
>       git merge git://repo.com/time_machine.git#branch
> 
> don't you (perhaps with 'master' as default branch)?

Something like that.  I wantee to enphasize on the "merge" command that 
should deal with, hey, merges.

I don't know if # is a good choice for branch indicator though.


Nicolas
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