Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git.txt: command re-classification

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Jan 19, 2007, 22:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20070119225920.GA26442@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <eoriau$n97$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:57:12PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > Also, having:
> > 
> >    git-am(1)
> >           Apply a series of patches from a mailbox.
> > 
> >    git-applymbox(1)
> >           Apply a series of patches in a mailbox.
> > 
> > looks a bit weird.  Why two commands with almost the same description?  
> > Maybe one of them could be relegated to ancillary?  Or even both of them 
> > to foreignscminterface?
> 
> Because they are almost the same (same command, different interface).
> git-applymbox is legacy for Linus.

Given how often this question is asked, maybe git-aplymbox should just be removed from this and every other global list of commands. Linus (and whoever else is used to it) knows where to find it.

Unless there's really something it has that git-am doesn't.

--b.