Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp

Dnia poniedziałek 3. listopada 2008 09:43, Sam Vilain napisał:

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:36 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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    git checkout --track origin/wr34251-do-something

Ah, that's a new feature.  Still, I think it's poorly Huffman coded; far
too verbose.

Well, either you have a little bit more verbose, or you have to have
some DWIM-mery, which (as usual with DWIM) can go wrong.

That's right, you need to choose when to assume that the user meant
something that they didn't write very carefully.

But look at this:

  git checkout origin/master

  git checkout -t origin/master

The option is called "--track", yet in this case what it actually means
in the default situation where you have autosetupmerge (or whatever it's
really called) set to true, is that it modifies the command to imply "-b
master".  So, in this situation, that is clearly what was meant.

Perhaps you can give an example of why this particular piece of DWIM
might not be WYM?

I was not talking about "git checkout -t origin/master" being shortcut
for "git checkout -b master -t origin/master", but about proposed
DWIM-mery for "git checkout -b <branch>" which would be

                             { git checkout -b <branch> -t <remote>/<branch>
  git checkout -b <branch> = {        if there exists <remote>/<branch> 
                             {
                             { git checkout -b <branch> HEAD
                             {        otherwise
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Jakub Narebski
Poland