From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail•com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Highly inconsistent diff UI
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:32:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li87awwc.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kn7mEosWSdWs1Jjx-L32wmL51W=X7ny9BYQMttG1LPvQ@mail.gmail.com> (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:24:17 +0530")
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail•com> writes:
> Thomas Rast wrote:
>> I personally think we have enough magic revision syntax to last at least
>> another decade. If you propose to add some, please make a patch that we
>> can cook in next for a few release cycles and then conduct a straw poll
>> if people actually use it.
>
> Isn't it obviously incredibly useful? I'm working on a topic branch I
> need to send out to git.git, and I want see how my WIP looks: should I
> have to rebase on master just to see this?
>
> Why such a huge resistance against such a small feature? Can you
> think of ways in which it is myopic (and therefore a pain to keep
> supporting, if we find it undesirable)?
What's the problem with cooking it for a while? You can start using it
immediately. I'm just somewhat annoyed that the syntax is rapidly
converging to Perl-style line noise.
I already hate half of the existing syntax, and I cannot remember using
^! (except while investigating what 'git diff C^!' does and why not),
^@, @{-N} (only the related 'git checkout -'), @{date} and @{relative},
^{}, :/foo, and ^{/foo}, *at all*.
In fact I had to look up the second half of that list on the manpage.
That's not to say that they are not useful for *someone*. But it does
motivate my suggestion that unless we have tried it and *found* that
someone for a new syntax, let's not make it any more magic.
> On a related note- In my opinion, :/ is broken, because it blocks
> composition completely. I would've really liked {:/quuxery}~3.
I guess this constitutes an argument in my favor (i.e. that the syntax
is too convoluted to understand and know):
^{/foo} is the same as :/foo, except it properly groups.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-25 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-24 12:23 [BUG] Highly inconsistent diff UI Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 16:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-24 17:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24 18:12 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 19:23 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-24 20:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24 20:14 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 16:44 ` [BUG] " Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24 16:51 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 18:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24 18:48 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 19:00 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24 19:29 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 21:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24 22:06 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 20:44 ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-24 20:54 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 21:02 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-24 21:10 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-25 7:32 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2013-04-25 8:06 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-25 16:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-25 17:11 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-25 23:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-25 23:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-26 12:34 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-24 21:25 ` Phil Hord
2013-04-24 21:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-24 22:44 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 23:17 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-25 5:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-25 7:51 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-25 9:30 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-26 10:47 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-26 11:35 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-29 16:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 18:21 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-29 18:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 19:03 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-29 19:17 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-29 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 21:12 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-29 18:32 ` John Keeping
2013-04-25 4:27 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
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