On 01.08.2019 22:26, Junio C Hamano wrote:
All true. Perhaps we need a separate tutorial for scripters to teach them how to properly combine the plumbing commands?
@Phillip thanks for your effort! However, I must admit that for us, this cure is worse then the problem. We're not exactly scripting, rather we're assisting users to make their work with git more convenient/efficient. If we replace all the familiar commands with exotic combinations of 2-3 chained plumbing, this will definitely leave most users completely clueless about what our UI is doing (we have a window that shows all executed commands). On top of that, I think that my quick analysis only uncovered like 1/3 of all the new edge cases (compared to using high-level commands) and the solutions already look quite scary to me. Taking the other 2/3 into account, it really feels that this would be a path of lots of pain and many bugfixes.
