From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Cc: "Gábor Farkas" <gabor.farkas@gmail.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git switch/restore, still experimental?
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 12:52:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6092db4384938_1d2452084a@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2105051554250.50@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Which leaves us with two hard choices regarding switch/restore, none of
> them really being comfortable:
>
> - we scrap switch/restore because their usability is not really all that
> improved relative to `git checkout`.
>
> - we leave switch/restore as-are (because by now, changing the options or
> the design would be almost certainly disruptive to users who already
> tried to adopt the new commands, I being one of those users).
There's another option:
- we revamp completely switch/restore (because any users relying on
them by now were warned they shouldn't assume these commands to stay
as they are).
> I say that neither of them is a really splendid choice because the
> original goal is not only not accomplished, but I would say it is even
> harder now than it was when we accepted switch/restore into an official
> release, because of that experience with switch/restore. We simply do not
> have the right expertise on this list, and therefore anything we do will
> always have that "UX designed by an engineer" feel.
I disagree. Engineers can create a good UI, especially after trying
for a while failed attempts.
Cheers.
--
Felipe Contreras
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-05 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-04 10:32 git switch/restore, still experimental? Gábor Farkas
2021-05-04 19:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 3:46 ` Elijah Newren
2021-05-05 4:01 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-05-05 11:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-05 17:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 19:26 ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-05 19:48 ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-06 1:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-06 15:19 ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-06 10:05 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-06 14:29 ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-06 2:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-06 10:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-10 11:04 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-10 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-06 11:00 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-06 15:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-06 21:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-10 10:58 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-11 7:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 14:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-05-05 14:26 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-06 1:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-05 17:52 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
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