Re: suggestions about stgit commands renaming

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Jan 10, 2007, 19:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20070110195212.GH17093@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070109220332.GD17093@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:03:32PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:

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> Maybe some restucturing of commands is called for.  One possibility
> would be to go with prefixes (eg. ppush, pshow), but that does not
> address the sub-commands issue, which would have to be dealt with
> another way, possibly by multiplying commands (branch -> blist,
> bcreate, etc), which I'm not very fond of.
> 
> Another would be to generalize command groups, and acknowledge
> subcommands as such.  Eg:
> 
> stg branch --create		-> stg branch create
> stg show			-> stg patch show
> stg push			-> stg patch push
> 
> 
> The latter obviously suggests that some would want to keep "stg push"
> as an alias (here comes again the idea of programable aliases like we
> already have for GIT.

Thinking twice, the current "shortcut prefix" mechanism would already allow us to use shortcuts like "stg p show" and "stg b create".