On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:13:49AM +0000, Pieter de Bie wrote: > > On 19 feb 2009, at 07:37, John Tapsell wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > Yes, this has been raised many times in #git now, so it makes > sense to include it. A similar idea came around last week, and in turn Dscho explained why such a change is not a good idea. I think he is fully right here. <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902092228470.10279@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/109136 On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:31:56PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > If we start along those lines, we also have to add documentation how > to > > - split commit, > > - change authorship of commits, > > - deal with commits where --cherry-pick did not detect that they were > applied already, > > - deal with merge commits, and > > - possibly a lot more. > > I do not think that this is a good way to spend valuable screen > estate; I > think that is what the man page should cover. > > I only made an exception for the deletion of lines, as people were > actively burnt. Yes, they should have read the man page. But the > consequences of not doing so were bad. Regards, Gábor -- 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
