On 2023-10-22 08:04, Jacob Stopak wrote:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 04:28:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
You are not alone in feeling the impedance mismatch between the
intended audience the patch(es) try to help (pointy-clicky GUI
users)
I'm sure there's overlap with "pointy-clicky GUI users" but my point
isn't to directly cater to them. I find it intersting to think about
how visual (and ok fine even gui) tools can be used as bridge tools
that can be discarded one the important concepts are solidified, and
maybe resurrected in a moment of stupidity or strife.
It's like yes use the crutch if you need it, but then do it the real
way once you get it.
Quite frankly, that would be like starting to learn how to drive a car
by playing GTA 5, or whichever version of GTA it currently popular. I
don't think that would work out well for the vast majority of student
drivers.
And altho this is a visual helper feature, it keeps the user within the
terminal, close to the Git cli and may help some subset stay there.
Even if that would work out for some people, it would require the
formatting into tables to be the default for git, which frankly I'd
never support.
