Re: git-add--interactive works only in top level

Hi,

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

El 4/12/2007, a las 7:22, Junio C Hamano escribi?:

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Reid Barton [off-list ref] writes:

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I understand that programs such as git-add--interactive will be 
moved out of the executable path not too long from now, which will 
also ameliorate the situation.

Honestly, there is nothing to ameliorate.  We do not even document 
git-add--interactive on purpose.

Once I saw somebody who somehow got a root account on a shared UNIX 
box and tryed running everything he found under /sbin one after 
another without understanding what he was doing.  Needless to say, the 
box did not last too long.  Somehow that "tab completion" comment 
reminds of him.

Here he have two options: blame the user for his/her stupidity, or look 
at this a UI problem and try to make the UI "idiot proof".

In this particular case I see no impediment to favouring the second 
option, because we're not talking about making changes that would make 
Git less powerful or useful for "non-idiots", "power users" or "real 
men" (whatever you want to call them). In other words, we are not 
talking about "dumbing down" Git for the sake of the ignorant. This is 
an opportunity to polish the UI in the same way that we polish the 
internal pack format.

You know, without patches you will not convince me ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho