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Re: "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"?

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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date
Dec 29, 2008, 20:47 UTC
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On Monday 2008 December 29 13:37:19 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
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> JCH> I think he is comparing "git am" and "git-am" the latter of which is
> JCH> now deprecated and largely removed from the end user.
>
> By the way, we here at the end user end have a hard time detecting if
> "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"...

That shouldn't be a problem for much longer because "git-whatever" will stop working. From what I understand, "git whatever" has always been the preferred form, and the fact that "git-whatever" worked was just a implementation detail.

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