From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google•com>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>,
Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail•com>, git <git@vger•kernel.org>,
Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail•com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Subject: Re: GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:37:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4md4cu83.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E364888-DD95-4B47-9679-3CB586FC7E8C@gmail.com> (Lars Schneider's message of "Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:23:56 +0100")
Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com> writes:
> If this mode is enabled then Git shall print a warning message before
> running a potentially destructive command. In addition to the warning
> Git shall print a command that would reverse the operation if possible.
> Most of the information to reverse an operation is already available
> via git reflog. However, the task here is to make this information more
> easily accessible to Git beginners.
>
> --
>
> Does this go into the direction of "making the powerful tool harder to
> misuse"?
Not really, if done without a real thinking. The approach risks to
make the powerful tool harder to use, not just misuse.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-19 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-10 9:31 GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2 Matthieu Moy
2016-02-10 11:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-10 17:44 ` Stefan Beller
2016-02-11 8:36 ` Christian Couder
2016-02-12 7:10 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-12 8:29 ` Lars Schneider
2016-02-12 9:11 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-12 13:04 ` Jeff King
2016-02-12 13:11 ` Jeff King
2016-02-13 11:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-16 18:10 ` Stefan Beller
2016-02-17 10:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-17 10:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-02-17 13:36 ` [PATCH 0/3] Turn git-rebase--*.sh to external helpers Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-02-17 13:36 ` [PATCH 1/3] rebase: move common functions to rebase--lib.sh Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-02-17 13:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] rebase: move cleanup code to exit_rebase() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-02-17 14:03 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-17 13:36 ` [PATCH 3/3] rebase: turn git-rebase--*.sh into separate programs Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-02-17 14:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-17 14:22 ` [PATCH 0/3] Turn git-rebase--*.sh to external helpers Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-17 14:40 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-02-17 13:09 ` GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2 Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-17 16:04 ` Christian Couder
2016-02-22 9:28 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-02-22 10:22 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-22 21:42 ` Jeff King
2016-02-22 21:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-22 22:02 ` Jeff King
2016-02-23 13:13 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-24 10:52 ` Jeff King
2016-02-17 17:24 ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-02-17 18:32 ` Lars Schneider
2016-02-17 18:58 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-17 19:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-17 20:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-17 20:45 ` Jeff King
2016-02-17 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-18 9:38 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2016-02-19 8:06 ` GSoC 2016: applications open, libgit2 and git.git Matthieu Moy
2016-02-19 9:46 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2016-02-29 21:01 ` Git has been accepted as a GSoC 2016 mentor organization! Matthieu Moy
2016-03-08 22:46 ` Jeff King
2016-03-08 23:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-08 23:03 ` Jeff King
2016-03-09 9:55 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-03-09 14:08 ` Jeff King
2016-03-09 13:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-03-09 19:34 ` Jeff King
2016-02-19 8:09 ` GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = now => submission Matthieu Moy
2016-02-19 8:18 ` Jeff King
2016-02-19 9:10 ` GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = now => submitted Matthieu Moy
2016-02-19 11:37 ` Jeff King
2016-02-18 8:41 ` GSoC 2016: applications open, deadline = Fri, 19/2 Lars Schneider
2016-02-18 18:38 ` Stefan Beller
2016-02-18 19:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-19 7:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-19 20:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-20 9:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-02-19 9:23 ` Lars Schneider
2016-02-19 12:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-19 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-02-19 11:46 ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-02-19 3:09 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-02-19 3:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-19 3:29 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-02-19 7:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-02-19 9:41 ` Duy Nguyen
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