On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:48:41PM +0000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> if we are growing legacies in git this fast it will turn itself into CVS
> very quickly, give or take 20 years ;-) I think a straightforward usage
> model is paramount, so phasing out such inconsistencies as early as
> possible in the project's lifetime should be a priority IMHO. Git has a
> very, very 'refreshing' approach to information management, and that
> should permeate it all across. It's easy to be "fresh" in the beginning
> of a project - maintaining freshness for years is a lot harder. (i dont
> suggest to break compatibility, but to be aware of such inconsitencies
> and make it a priority to get rid of them. It does not help that such
> inconsistencies are only apparent to git newbies.)
Well that's what deprecation is for, but you cannot do that on short
timeframes.
> for example, if i type "git-checkout" in a Linux kernel tree, it just
> sits there for up to a minute, and "does nothing". That is totally
> wrong, human-interaction wise. Then after a minute it just returns. What
> happened? Why? Where? A newbie would then try "git-checkout -v", using
> the well-established "verbose" flag, but that gives:
>
> Usage: /usr/bin/git-checkout [-q] [-f] [-b <new_branch>] [-m] [<branch>] [<paths>...]
not anymore:
$ git checkout -v
error: unknown switch `v'
usage: git-branch [options] [<branch>] [<paths>...]
-b ... create a new branch started at <branch>
-l create the new branchs reflog
--track tells if the new branch should track the remote branch
-f proceed even if the index or working tree is not HEAD
-m performa three-way merge on local modifications if needed
-q, --quiet be quiet
Not all commands are migrated to this new scheme though.
The next git has a _lot_ of things done better wrt UI and such issues.
Though some backward incompatible changes must be introduced with the
proper deprecation warnings, so that people can adapt.
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·O· Pierre Habouzit
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