[petsc-dev] Reminder planning release soon

[Barry Smith]

   I am not objecting to having an option to create a new branch. I am object to the use of "b" as the letter to indicate the option.


On Mar 20, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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?