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Re: Joining cg-*-id

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Sep 19, 2005, 21:56 UTC
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<20050919215608.GA13845@pasky.or.cz>
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Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:40:49PM CEST, I got a letter where Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> told me that...

> Hello!
Hello,
> I believe Cogito should keep the command list short.  When the *-id
> utilities got the cg-prefix, the list became longer by 3 commands.

well, those commands are semi-public, actually. E.g. cg-help does not list them.

> What if we join cg-commit-id, cg-parent-id and cg-tree-id into one cg-id
> (or cg-admin-id) utility?  It would work like cg-commit-id in absence of
> switches, -p would make it work like cg-parent-id, and -t would make it
> cg-tree-id.

Perhaps cg-object-id? I'm not principially opposed to that, but I don't see much value in it either. Perhaps if this would come along with the usage of git-rev-parse (see below)...

> Alternatively, this functionality should go to git.  It's low-level
> enough to be there.

There is git-rev-parse, but it is not as powerful (cannot take dates and sha1 completion does not work when listing parents) - OTOH it can complete sha1 ids even inside packs, which is really useful. Still, IMHO its usage is awful, so it'd take place for cg-Xnormid, but we would still keep the *-id frontends (which would also handle the dates).

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  2. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2005
  8. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2005
  11. Paul MackerrasSep 21, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsSep 21, 2005
  13. Paul MackerrasSep 21, 2005
  14. Petr BaudisSep 21, 2005
  15. Matthias UrlichsSep 20, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2005
  17. Matthias UrlichsSep 20, 2005
  18. Paul MackerrasSep 20, 2005
  19. Pavel RoskinSep 19, 2005
  20. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2005
  21. Pavel RoskinSep 20, 2005
  22. Petr BaudisSep 20, 2005

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