Re: Should git-citool be in mainporcelain in command-list?

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2010, 21:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20100906213937.GF26371@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Hn_GG1y3gkVxgnsKyVD+VutG5SU5HhmhRfktH@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> Maybe there should be an aliases category:
> 
>     $ grep -e git-gui -e citool command-list.txt
>     git-citool                              mainporcelain
>     git-gui                                 mainporcelain
> 
> A very minor nit, just something I ran into while gettext-izing and
> wondered "what's that".
> 
> But I'm probably the only one that's used command-list.txt for
> anything non-Make related in a while :)

Its main purpose is to populate the command list in git.1:

   Main porcelain commands
[...]
	git-citool(1)
	   Graphical alternative to git-commit.
[...]
	git-gui(1)
	   A portable graphical interface to Git.

What do you think this should say? (Honest question --- I haven't thought hard about it.)