Hi, On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > El 4/12/2007, a las 7:22, Junio C Hamano escribi?: > > > Reid Barton <rwbarton@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > I understand that programs such as git-add--interactive will be > > > moved out of the executable path not too long from now, which will > > > also ameliorate the situation. > > > > Honestly, there is nothing to ameliorate. We do not even document > > git-add--interactive on purpose. > > > > Once I saw somebody who somehow got a root account on a shared UNIX > > box and tryed running everything he found under /sbin one after > > another without understanding what he was doing. Needless to say, the > > box did not last too long. Somehow that "tab completion" comment > > reminds of him. > > Here he have two options: blame the user for his/her stupidity, or look > at this a UI problem and try to make the UI "idiot proof". > > In this particular case I see no impediment to favouring the second > option, because we're not talking about making changes that would make > Git less powerful or useful for "non-idiots", "power users" or "real > men" (whatever you want to call them). In other words, we are not > talking about "dumbing down" Git for the sake of the ignorant. This is > an opportunity to polish the UI in the same way that we polish the > internal pack format. You know, without patches you will not convince me ;-) Ciao, Dscho - 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
