Jakub Narebski wrote:
Analysis: strangely "git add + git commit" is slightly more used than "git commit -a"; I would suspect that "git commit -a" would dominate a bit over other forms of committing.
I believe people have finally gotten to grasp with the index. Besides, those answers are probably a bit skewed, as people that use git as just a faster and better cvs/svn aren't likely to be those who answer the survey.
What is for me more suprising is that "git commit <file>..." has such large presence in often used commands; I would think that it should be mostly used as 'sometimes' command.
I know myself and most others where I work use it as a 'fixup' command. One commit is done, the second is being staged (git add or git add -i), while testing reveals some silly bug in one of the files from the last commit. Assuming that file isn't touched again, it's easy to fix up using "git commit --amend <file>", as that automatically sets up a new index so that the staged changes remain staged. The alternative would be to do a mixed reset, git add <file>, git commit --amend. Not so sexy.
Top 10 rarely used commands =================================== Command + options | rarely [%] ----------------------------------- git revert | 31% (454) git pull <URL> <ref> | 22% (348) git blame | 21% (328) git fetch [<options>] | 20% (313) git rebase | 20% (291) git remote | 20% (289) git merge | 18% (286) git apply | 18% (284) git pull --rebase | 18% (283) Analysis: "git pull <URL> <ref>", direct pull without using remote-tracking branches, is quite popular among rarely used commands. Strange that "git pull ---rebase" is among rarely used; I would think it is question of workflow... but perhaps rarely encountered workflow.
Perhaps many who use it don't know that they are. The "git sync" alias is much in use where I work. It's basically just a "git pull --rebase && git push". As it was suggested on the mailing list and also listed in some tutorial somewhere (don't know where), I can imagine quite a lot of people using it without realising it. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 -- 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
