Hi, On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > It is wrong to divert to "git remote add" when you typed the (more > > English) "git add remote". But is it also pretty convenient. > > Please don't do cute things like this. Suddenly "git add remote" has two > different meanings depending on whether you have a file called "remote" > or not. That is *not* ok. > > Not to mention the fact that your patch is also a horrible piece of > bug-infested shit, to put it less-than-politely. Namely, you now broke > "git add remote" when "remote" is a symbolic link pointing to > hyperspace. > > But even if you fix that bug, it only goes to show just how misguided > things like these are. It's a *lot* more important to make sense and not > have surprising special cases, than to try to make git command lines act > as if they were free-form English. Hehe. You're right, of course. But I could not resist showing off that patch which I wrote after I mixed up the command line of "remote add" for the 926th time. 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
