[Info-vax] XQP File Versions (was: Re: What does VMS get used for, these days?)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 12/1/22 11:31 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> Except git is not really a tool you want to use on the command line. 

And yet somehow tens of thousands of people do so without considering it
a major problem.  It is a rather large command language and can take a
while to learn, but you don't really need to know that much of it to be
productive.

> Referring to commits by hashes that are 64 for or so random characters 
> to type just is not doable. Cut and paste makes it sortof manageable, 
> but it still sucks big time.

You only need to specify as many characters as necessary to make the
commit ID unique; seven is a common convention.  And copy and paste
works quite well.  And there are lots of shortcuts for
commonly-referred-to commits, such as tag names, branch names, HEAD (the
tip of the current branch). Plus there are suffixes that make it easy to
get other commits relative to the commits that are easy to spell: HEAD^10
gives you the 10th parent of the tip of the current branch, to cite only
one example.  See "git help revisions" for details.