Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Nick Coghlan writes: > > > Every single git command line example I have seen gives me exactly the > > same gut reaction I get whenever I have to read Perl code. > > Every single one? Sounds to me like the cause is probably something > you ate, not anything you read. In the examples in the PEP, about 80% > of the commands were syntactically identical across VCSes. What, hyperbole on the internets? ;) The non-trivial examples are the ones I was talking about - as you say, for trivial tasks, the only difference is typically going to be in the exact name of the command. > I hope nobody is put off either git or bzr by the result of this PEP. > If there's anything striking about the PEP's examples, it's how > similar the usage of the VCSes would be in the context of Python's > workflow. There are important differences, and I agree with Guido's > choice, for Python, on March 30, 2009. But all three are capable > VCSes, with advantages and disadvantages, and were this PEP started > next June rather than last December, the result could have been very > different. Indeed! (although I doubt git's CLI will ever evolve into anything I could claim to love) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------
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