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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail•com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	Sidhant Sharma <tigerkid001@gmail•com>,
	Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee•org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/GSOC] Git Beginner | Warnings for potentially destructive commands
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:12:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqfuvdi87u.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xqkqfccQtWeKbURZt21i+gw=b7f0YHHuqeNzM7TH2m+6g@mail.gmail.com> (Jacob Keller's message of "Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:20:48 -0700")

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail•com> writes:

> If possible, I would suggest aiming for generating the actual topology
> that the user is seeing, customized so that it gives relevenat
> information, rather than static examples.

Using the real topology in a useful way is actually pretty hard. It's
quite easy to throw the output of "git log --graph --oneline ..." to the
user, but as soon as the rebase deals with more than a handfull of
commits, we'd want to simplify the history to show something
understandable to the user (which by definition should be a beginner if
he uses ggit), like replacing long sequences of commits with "..." or
so. That is hard to get right.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-26 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-25 10:18 [RFC/GSOC] Git Beginner | Warnings for potentially destructive commands Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-25 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-25 19:20   ` Jacob Keller
2016-03-26 15:12     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2016-03-27  7:36       ` Jacob Keller
2016-03-29  6:13   ` Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-30 15:57 ` [RFC/GSOC] Git Beginner | Warnings for potentially destructive commands (v2) Sidhant Sharma
2016-03-31  7:59   ` Remi Galan Alfonso

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