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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Brandon Williams <bwilliams.eng@gmail.com>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refspec: make @ a valid refspec
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:20:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s33jhx+5m_LmaVi58n0roJH-ZD9z0nU6M5d6_Kd+i=5Dw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3f_cO61YVjvwsiswKQRESznOFn7KTshgv06a=zVRPLug@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 6:09 PM Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 4:45 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> > > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
> >
> > Using "@" is rather "illogical" than "ugly", and at that point it is
> > not so subjective.
>
> I disagree.

This is not an attempt to reignite the discussion, but just something
that might be of interest.

I created a poll [1] in reddit's r/git: Do you know @ is a shortcut for HEAD?

403 people gave a useful response. Of those; 74% didn't know such a
shortcut existed, 80% liked this shortcut.

But more importantly: 59% did like the shortcut, but didn't know it
existed. That is: of the people that liked the shortcut; 74% didn't
know it existed.

This tells us something: putting personal preferences aside; the Git
project doesn't seem to be doing a great job of advertising its
features. Features a good chunk--if not the overwhelming majority--of
users might like.

Other things of interest in the comments: one user didn't even know
what HEAD was, another used "head" (lowercase) (macOS user), and
lastly; the second most voted comment did take a shot at Git's known
unintuitiveness.

That's it. Just putting it here.

Cheers.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/k15cqm/do_you_know_is_a_shortcut_for_head/

-- 
Felipe Contreras

      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-04 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-22 16:46 [PATCH] refspec: make @ a valid refspec Felipe Contreras
2020-11-24  7:42 ` Jeff King
2020-11-24 20:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-24 22:01     ` Felipe Contreras
2020-11-24 22:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-24 22:52         ` Jacob Keller
2020-11-24 23:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-24 23:47             ` Jacob Keller
2020-11-25  0:28               ` Felipe Contreras
2020-11-25  0:30               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-25  0:14             ` Felipe Contreras
2020-11-25  0:09         ` Felipe Contreras
2020-12-04 22:20           ` Felipe Contreras [this message]

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