On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Likely some allegedly smart person figured -b is short for branch so > everyone will instinctively know that that -b means create a new branch. Of > course to new users who don't know git they would never think -b meant > create a new branch. The problem is that the developers of git have > absolutely no taste in user interface design and likely consider any time > spent thinking about user interface issues is wasted and just use the first > stupid thing that pops into their head. It is very common to want to create a new branch starting from a particular commit. What syntax would you suggest for this combination? Or leave it to the user to write their own alias that does both? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20130320/411c1864/attachment.html>
