> severity 469290 wishlist > thanks Well, not IMO.
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:10:40PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Please change the short description of tig to something like: > > ncurses-based visualization tool for git repositories > Could you please be somewhat more verbose about why this should be done? > I.e.: Which parts of the current short descriptions don't you like? > Which parts do you consider useless? It is useless because reading the short description, namely "fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (CLI repository browser)", does not tell the user that this is a tool for *git* repositories. > By now, tig may also be used to do some very basic editing (currently > merging, editing and cherry-picking is supported). So, "visualization > tool" is not really adequate. Even if you don't consider those features, > "browser" imho much better describes the purpose of tig. Quite frankly, > I wouldn't know what to expect from a "visualization tool". The emphasis is not in the "visualization tool" (sorry about that), but on the "for git repositories. So any "$foo for git repositories", should be fine, or anything that clearly indicates that tig is to be used with git would work too. > > While you're at it, please consider removing the first two paragraphs of > > the extended description. > Again, I don't really see, why I should remove those paragraphs... > tig is very closely related to git-core (it's just a frontend to it) so > I'd really like to keep the description as close as possible to the > git-core description. Copying paragraphs from the git-core description is useless as well. git-core is git-core, tig is tig. Read DevRef for more information (§ 6.2. Best practices for debian/control). If you're unsure I'm right here, feel free to contact other developers for input. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
