On 10/20/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe we could group commands into more categories?
>
> plumbing: should be hidden from the 'normal' user. Porcelain
> should be sufficient for every standard task.
The problem is division between what is porcelain and what is plumbing.
Some commands are right on border (git-fsck, git-update-index, git-rev-parse
comes to mind).
But it should be fairly easy to:
1. put only porcelain in bash / zsh completion ('git <tab>' shows
only porcelain
2. move plumbing out of PATH, but use exec-dir instead.
[...]
> mail porcelain: the list will probably hate me for this, but
> I think all commands needed to create and send patches per
> mail are not essential. I suspect that I'll _never_ ask
> my colleagues at work to send me a patch by mail. They'll
> always push it to a shared repo.
Usually mail porcelain is in separate binary package, git-mail for
RPMS packages for example. But iMVHO git-format-patch is as often used
as other commands, and is certainly porcelain.
> import/export: Many commands are only used for importing
> from or exporting to other version control systems. Examples
> are git-cvs*, git-svn*. They are not needed once you switched
> to git.
Those are also in separate packages.
> admin: Some commands are not used in a typical workflow. For
> example git-filter-branch or git-fsck have a more admin
> flavor.
These are a few commands only. I'm not sure about how to separate
those from ordinary commands.
[...]
> So here are a few questions:
>
> Could we find a small set of core porcelain commands that
> completely cover a typical workflow? The core section of the
> manual should only refer to those commands. Absolutely no
> plumbing should be needed to tweak things. In principle, a
> typical user should be able to work if _all other_ commands
> except for core porcelain are hidden from his PATH.
The problem here I suppose might lie with the same reason why
(almost?) all Office Lite systems failed: because even if 80% of people
use only 20% of functaionality, it is not the _same_ 20%.
--
Jakub Narebski
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