Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 27, 2008, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20080827202707.GA25233@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <48B5B7F3.4080803@pobox.com>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:24:19PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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> Indeed.
>
> Also, I type "git-diff-tree" quite a lot.
>
> My fingers find that
>
> 	git SPACE diff DASH tree
>
> is slower and less consistent than
>
> 	git DASH diff DASH tree
>
> The same with git-format-patch...  We are going from "all dashes" to "a  
> mix of space and dashes" which is increasing inconsistency.

I have also found the SPACE-DASH slightly harder to type. However, I'm curious: what are you doing frequently from the commandline with git-diff-tree that is not just as easily done with git-diff?

-Peff

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