Re: Deprecate git-fetch-pack?

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Nov 11, 2007, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20071111222117.GA7392@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4ugcwkm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:16:09PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > This should be a non-issue.  We really should start deprecating 
> > "git-<command>" in favour of "git <command>" for real.
> >
> > New users should not even be told that this is correct usage.
> >
> 
> If you can write "git-commit" and "git commit" interchangeably
> while you cannot say "git-cat-file" and are forced to say "git
> cat-file", I suspect that would lead to a great confusion and
> unhappy users.

One of the reasons why I use git-diff and git-commit and in particular "git-rebase --interactive master" very often is that it allows my shell's bang completion to work. (i.e., "!git-rebase"). If we tell people they can not use "git-rebase", and must instead use "git rebase" instead, I would consider that pretty annoying/obnoxious.

					- Ted