Re: What's in git.git (stable)

On Thursday 2006 December 14 09:36, Shawn Pearce wrote:

But I'm not sure that git-add should output anything.  Last I checked
the 'mv' command in Linux doesn't say "Move 5 files" when I move 5
files into a directory.  Likewise I don't think that knowing that
6781 files were added is useful, what if it should have really been
6782 files?  I'm unlikely to know, care, or realize it.

That's a very particular example you've picked out there.  Of course the user 
won't know if it should be 6781 or 6782; they might know if it should have 
been 2 or 10 though; 0 or 100.  In your example, output like "about six and a 
half thousand", would probably be perfectly useful, but why not just output 
the number?

Your niggle list (is that what you called it) has been useful
fodder for discussion.  I'm glad you took the time to write it up,
and to argue it so well on the list.  There's a number of items on
it that I'd like to see happen too; enough that I may code some of
them if nobody beats me to it.

I'm glad it was useful.  I never know how many disclaimers to put on these 
things.  I always feel that every message I write should begin with "I love 
git and use it every day, so please don't take this the wrong way, but..."



Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE