Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 1, 2007, 21:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20071201212655.GA22349@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vve7i43ec.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:32:27AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > We already have "git show", now we gonna get "git view", git trainers
> > may have hard time explaining this one shows you a particular object
> > while the other one shows you history. How about "git lshistory" (from
> > clearcase land) or git show --history?
> 
> Heh, we have "bisect visualize".  How about "git visualize"?

Yes, in retrospect "view" is probably not the best. "lshistory" just looks awful, and I think it's wrong for an option to "git show" to change it from a terminal application into a GUI application.

"visualize" is actually pretty good, except that it would be painful to type. On the other hand, I will probably still just type "gitk". I actually think these sorts of aliases may be most useful for user-facing scripts to say "and now show the dataset in the user's graphical history browser of choice."

-Peff