X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C9389EA.7050704@cygwin.com> References: <4C938040.3080704@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4C9389EA.7050704@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:18:28 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: simplifying rebaseall From: Al To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > > And it invites casual use without understanding the what and why. =A0This > means > more people using it for no reason and more problems using it when it is > needed because people don't understand the requirements to make it work > (i.e. *nobody* will read the readme... wait, there's a readme? ;-) ). > Hmm, how does information work currently? I found the hint to run rebase somewhere in a blog, when I was hunting down a bug. Others will be told on this list to run rebase all without the hint of a readme. You can verify this be reading the lists archive. The only hint you find in the FAQ is below the topic "Terminal Server machine". Who is finding that? I wouldn't even have an idea how to find and read this readme while using ash. I was reading the sources before finding the readme all. I have 10 years of Linux experience and even I didn't expect there was a readme around in this case. If you want to make sure people are informed before running it, it would be an option to display a small text when the script is starting, with the hint to the readme. That would even work with a link from the start menu. If there is a danger that people run rebase all without reading the readme, there is a similar danger that people give up Cygwin, before they ever discover that they could solve their issues by running rebaseall. Al -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple