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On 05/26/2016 04:15 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> No, those are all the correct names that git uses. Possibly years of |
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> using cvs/svn has trained your brain to think in a particular way. |
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> Git does not work that way. It's as different from svn as you can get |
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> for 2 reasons... |
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It all makes enough sense after you get used to it, but the problem is |
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that if you have some operation in mind and you read "git --help", then |
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you're going to guess the wrong command based on their names. Mercurial |
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and Darcs (which have a similar model) managed to get the names right. |
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The git people call their low-level commands "plumbing," and the |
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user-interface "porcelain." New user have trouble because the porcelain |
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commands are named after what the plumbing does. It's like if the |
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find/replace tool in your word processor was called "depth-first regular |
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expression group match substitution", and not "find." |
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