Re: [OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 11/12/2016 11:02 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-11-09 20:07, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Although I have my doubts it would explain all the issues I've hit upon with git's CLI. For example: I don't see why annotated tags aren't the default. Or why non-annotated ones even exist at all. When I

Re: [OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-12 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2016-11-10 06:31, Dicebot wrote: I think it is related, but is not necessary consequence. My understanding is that for a long time command line design was given zero thoughts on its own - it was directly exposing whatever git does internally with no usability considerations. Which is why it

Re: [OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-12 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2016-11-09 20:07, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Although I have my doubts it would explain all the issues I've hit upon with git's CLI. For example: I don't see why annotated tags aren't the default. Or why non-annotated ones even exist at all. When I made

Re: [OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-10 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 11/10/2016 09:31 AM, Dicebot wrote: On 11/10/2016 06:07 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Its things like that. I'd be surprised if that has much to do with git's nature as a "dumb" DAG tool. It's just the general good-design principle of "The thing you *want to* or *should* do or *expect* 99% of

Re: [OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-10 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On 11/10/2016 06:07 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > On 11/08/2016 02:11 PM, Antonio Corbi wrote: >> >> Maybe this one is useful for you: >> >> http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/ > On 11/08/2016 03:01 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: >> Nothing immediately comes to mind,

Re: [OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 11/09/2016 11:27 PM, Stefan Koch wrote: Please cut down on the OT guys. This thread serves as my development log :) As well as providing a place for discussion of the new engine. Though that discussion seems to be very quiet at the moment. Although the default web-based front-end for this

Re: [OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-09 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 04:22:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 11/08/2016 11:40 PM, Chris Wright wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:44:50 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I really wish Google would take that to heart. They seem to make a habit of ripping things out *before* having

Re: [OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 11/08/2016 11:40 PM, Chris Wright wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:44:50 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I really wish Google would take that to heart. They seem to make a habit of ripping things out *before* having replacements in place. I think they just simply love deleting code. I've seen

[OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 11/08/2016 02:11 PM, Antonio Corbi wrote: > > Maybe this one is useful for you: > > http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/ On 11/08/2016 03:01 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: Nothing immediately comes to mind, but thanks to Dr. Google, I found this page that's sorta

Re: [OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-08 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d
On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 11:44:50 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > I really wish Google would take that to heart. They seem to make a habit > of ripping things out *before* having replacements in place. > > I think they just simply love deleting code. I've seen this more internally than externally.

[OT] Re: CTFE Status

2016-11-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 11/05/2016 04:57 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: That's good thinking - leave short term to the short term and long term to the long term. As the Romanian proverb goes: "Don't sell the skin of the bear before you shoot it." -- Andrei I really wish Google would take that to heart. They seem