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

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:

On Wednesday 2006, December 13 21:35, Junio C Hamano wrote:

 * git-revert should be called git-invert.  It doesn't remove a change
   from history, it simply applies another commit that does the
   opposite of whatever commit you are "revert"ing.  That's an inversion.

No. An inversion is the _opposite_. Not an undo.

Besides, The fact that revert _adds_ to history is a nice way to 
document that you reverted that change. And you can even explain in the 
commit message, why you did it.

 * git-fetch output is confusing:
    remote: Generating pack...
    remote: Done counting 189146 objects.
    remote: Result has 186566 objects.
    remote: Deltifying 186566 objects.
    remote:  100% (186566/186566) done
    Unpacking 186566 objects
    24% (44792/186566) done
   Some questions from the point of view of a newbie: what is a pack?  what is 
   an object? Why is the remote counting them?  Which remote am I reading 
   from?  What am I fetching?  What is "Deltifying"?  How much data do I have 
   to download (number of objects doesn't tell me).  How long has this taken?  
   How long is left to go?

IMHO it is better for a newbie to see that _something_ is happening. A 
newbie cannot, and does not want to, understand exactly what is going on.

So, think of it as our response to Windows' non-progress-bar: when you 
start up Windows, there is a progress-bar, except that it does not show 
progress, but a Knight Rider like movement, only indicating that it does 
something.

Ciao,
Dscho