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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@...>, <git@...>
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 9:20 pm

Linus Torvalds escreveu:


that's not a good argument; the set of git users is a small subset of 
those that looked at git, and dismissed it because they couldn't wrap 
their heads around it.   It's worth trying to get those on board by 
fixing the annoying little issues that have popped up in this thread. 
The technical base for GIT is excellent, and the only reason for not 
using it is its arcane interface.

A version control system is often only tangentially related to the real 
work that needs to be done, so the incentive to learn it well is small, 
   and a steep learning curve only makes it worse.

FWIW, I regularly mess up with the differences between fetching, pulling 
and merging.  In particular, having to do a two step process to get 
remote changes in,

   git pull url-to-server master:master
      ..error message about not being a fast-forward..

   git pull --update-head-ok url-to-server master:master
      ..still an error message about update not being a fast-forward..

       (sigh)

   git pull url-to-server master:scrap-branch

   git pull . scrap-branch:my-current-branch

       (make mental note of deleting scrap-branch)


-- 
  Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Jakub Narebski, (Tue Nov 14, 5:30 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Tue Nov 14, 5:34 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Nov 14, 6:56 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Tue Nov 14, 9:48 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Nov 14, 10:10 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Petr Baudis, (Wed Nov 15, 4:12 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Nov 15, 4:26 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 15, 4:50 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Nov 15, 5:18 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Nov 15, 12:20 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 15, 2:03 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Petr Baudis, (Thu Nov 16, 12:30 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Theodore Tso, (Wed Nov 15, 9:14 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 16, 12:21 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Theodore Tso, (Thu Nov 16, 12:07 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts , Sanjoy Mahajan, (Wed Nov 22, 7:21 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Theodore Tso, (Thu Nov 16, 12:49 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Alexandre Julliard, (Thu Nov 16, 7:34 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Petr Baudis, (Thu Nov 16, 10:01 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Alexandre Julliard, (Thu Nov 16, 11:48 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Han-Wen Nienhuys, (Wed Nov 15, 9:20 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 15, 11:12 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Nov 16, 7:00 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 16, 7:22 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Han-Wen Nienhuys, (Thu Nov 16, 8:05 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts , Horst H. von Brand, (Wed Nov 22, 10:52 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Michael K. Edwards, (Thu Nov 16, 9:34 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Michael K. Edwards, (Fri Nov 17, 2:42 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Nov 17, 3:32 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Michael K. Edwards, (Fri Nov 17, 9:24 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 16, 8:39 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Han-Wen Nienhuys, (Thu Nov 16, 8:52 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 16, 8:13 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 16, 9:25 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 16, 8:37 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Han-Wen Nienhuys, (Thu Nov 16, 8:27 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Petr Baudis, (Thu Nov 16, 8:35 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Han-Wen Nienhuys, (Thu Nov 16, 6:45 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 16, 12:23 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Han-Wen Nienhuys, (Thu Nov 16, 12:42 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 16, 1:17 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 16, 2:13 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 16, 1:57 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 16, 2:28 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 16, 3:47 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 16, 3:53 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 16, 2:27 pm)
Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interf..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Nov 16, 6:21 pm)
Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interf..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Nov 16, 7:36 pm)
Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interf..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Nov 16, 9:22 pm)
Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interf..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Nov 16, 10:16 pm)
Re: multi-project repos, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 16, 6:44 pm)
Re: multi-project repos, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Nov 16, 8:29 pm)
Re: multi-project repos, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Nov 17, 1:39 pm)
Re: multi-project repos, Shawn Pearce, (Sat Nov 18, 2:02 am)
Re: multi-project repos, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Nov 18, 3:31 am)
Re: multi-project repos, Shawn Pearce, (Sat Nov 18, 3:45 am)
Re: multi-project repos, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Nov 17, 4:24 pm)
Re: multi-project repos, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 16, 2:33 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 16, 7:11 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Han-Wen Nienhuys, (Thu Nov 16, 9:03 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Han-Wen Nienhuys, (Thu Nov 16, 9:11 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 16, 7:47 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts , Horst H. von Brand, (Mon Nov 20, 3:44 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Shawn Pearce, (Mon Nov 20, 3:46 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 15, 10:03 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Han-Wen Nienhuys, (Wed Nov 15, 10:30 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 15, 11:27 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 16, 12:07 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 15, 11:35 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Andy Parkins, (Wed Nov 15, 2:58 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 15, 3:32 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 15, 3:18 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Michael K. Edwards, (Wed Nov 15, 3:39 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 15, 4:09 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Nov 15, 4:21 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 15, 4:40 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Theodore Tso, (Thu Nov 16, 12:26 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Andreas Ericsson, (Thu Nov 16, 7:50 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 16, 12:30 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 16, 1:01 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 16, 1:30 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Sean, (Thu Nov 16, 1:44 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Carl Worth, (Wed Nov 15, 5:08 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Jerome Lovy, (Tue Nov 21, 9:25 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 15, 5:45 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Carl Worth, (Wed Nov 15, 6:52 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Sean, (Wed Nov 15, 7:07 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Shawn Pearce, (Wed Nov 15, 7:02 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 15, 7:33 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 16, 12:37 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Michael K. Edwards, (Thu Nov 16, 1:57 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 16, 2:23 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Nov 17, 4:41 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Carl Worth, (Fri Nov 17, 5:18 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Nov 17, 7:29 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Nov 17, 6:11 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Shawn Pearce, (Fri Nov 17, 12:58 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Nov 17, 7:41 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Michael K. Edwards, (Wed Nov 15, 11:02 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Andreas Ericsson, (Thu Nov 16, 7:35 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Nov 15, 8:08 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 15, 11:07 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Nov 15, 11:43 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 15, 5:31 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Nov 15, 5:40 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 15, 5:52 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Karl , (Fri Nov 17, 8:20 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Nov 15, 5:59 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Nov 15, 2:43 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Shawn Pearce, (Wed Nov 15, 2:49 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Marko Macek, (Wed Nov 15, 3:05 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Sean, (Wed Nov 15, 6:28 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 15, 4:41 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Marko Macek, (Thu Nov 16, 2:07 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Shawn Pearce, (Wed Nov 15, 6:07 pm)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 15, 12:58 am)
Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts, Michael K. Edwards, (Tue Nov 14, 10:27 pm)
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