Re: Unify subcommand structure; introduce double dashes for all subcommands?

2014-08-10 Thread Stefan Beller
On 23.07.2014 19:52, Junio C Hamano wrote: Stefan Beller stefanbel...@gmail.com writes: A git command is generally setup as: git command [subcommand] [options] ... The subcommands vary wildly by the nature of the command. However all subcommands could at least follow one style. The

Re: Unify subcommand structure; introduce double dashes for all subcommands?

2014-08-10 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stefan Beller stefanbel...@gmail.com writes: On 23.07.2014 19:52, Junio C Hamano wrote: Sounds familiar. E.g. here is a similar thread about a year ago. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/231376/focus=231478 Further discussions to make the plan more concrete is

Re: Unify subcommand structure; introduce double dashes for all subcommands?

2014-08-10 Thread Stefan Beller
On 10.08.2014 20:13, Junio C Hamano wrote: Stefan Beller stefanbel...@gmail.com writes: On 23.07.2014 19:52, Junio C Hamano wrote: Sounds familiar. E.g. here is a similar thread about a year ago. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/231376/focus=231478 Further

Unify subcommand structure; introduce double dashes for all subcommands?

2014-07-23 Thread Stefan Beller
In the user survey 2012 question 23 (In your opinion, which areas in Git need improvement?), the most crucial point identified was the user interface. I wonder if there are any more recent surveys, showing if this has changed. Now when we want to improve the user interface, we're likely talking

Re: Unify subcommand structure; introduce double dashes for all subcommands?

2014-07-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stefan Beller stefanbel...@gmail.com writes: A git command is generally setup as: git command [subcommand] [options] ... The subcommands vary wildly by the nature of the command. However all subcommands could at least follow one style. The commands bundle, notes, stash and submodule