Hi,
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:
>
> > I also think that for a user it is totally irrelevant if it is plumbing
> > or porcelain she is using, as long as it works. I mean, if I tought
> > someone using git, I'd never use the words "porcelain" or "plumbing".
>
> So you would say that remembering the name "rev-parse" is just as easy as
> remembering "show"?
"show" is an intuitional name, "rev-parse" is not.[1]
But that wasn't my point. The point was, that it is not important to a
user whether the tool is called "plumbing" or "porcelain"; that these
terms have no value for the user, if she just wants to get a job done.
Of course, "usually" porcelain is more helpful and as I've said (or
at least tried to say), I don't think there is any plumbing that's
useful for a git beginner.
Regards,
Stephan
Footnote:
1. A further comment about the intuitionality or "remembering":
git-apply is plumbing and has an intuitional name (hence easy to
remember), git-am is porcelain and does not have one.
--
Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@xxxxxxx>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F
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