Re: EasyGit Integration

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Scott Chacon[off-list ref] wrote:

Hey all,

I have been playing with the EasyGit project lately and I have been
really impressed.  I looked back to the last announcement here and the
conversation didn't really go anywhere, sadly.  I thought it might be
nice to adopt or at least consider a number of the design decisions
they made in modifying the defaults and commands available.  Perhaps
as a 1.7 goal or something?  I like it because it addresses a lot of
the issues that I hear from beginning users:

* breaks the various things that 'checkout' does into separate
commands - moves 'revert' to doing what 'checkout -- path' does, moves
current 'revert' to 'cherry-pick --revert' (which someone mentioned
was a good idea at the last GitTogether), and adds 'unstage' for
'reset HEAD file'.  also adds a '-s' option to 'branch' to switch to
the branch after you create it, which many people expect rather than
'checkout -b'.

I like 'git unstage', but not the rest.

* adds 'git resolved' for 'git add', which I hear all the time as
being confusing

I would prefer 'git stage'; 'git resolved' seems to be meant for a
very particular case: resolve conflicts, it would be much better to
learn that you can do 'git stage' at any time.

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* 'git backout' for 'git reset HEAD^'

I don't like that. Looks like a very specialized case. It's much
better to learn this particular use of 'git reset'.

* 'git push origin --delete <branch>' for 'git push origin :branch'

That would be really good, it took me a lot of time to find that idiom.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras