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

From: Perry Wagle <wagle@cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Aug 28, 2008, 23:22 UTC
Message-ID: <4018E8E1-9C23-4AED-BA78-6E889A32E691@cs.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20080828230401.GC29609@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:33:26PM -0700, Perry Wagle wrote:
>
>> But I think I'll still remain wary because 1.6 introduced a nearly
>> complete renaming of the API for what, in this thread anyway,  
>> completely
>> silly reasons.  If there are good reasons, I haven't seen them.
>
> I think the reasons have been mentioned a few times. Maybe you just
> didn't think they were good.

What I saw was "git<DASH><SPACE> produces a list of 143 commands. Long lists are inefficient. Get rid of it!". Actually the list is a hash table in any reasonable shell. So its only aesthetics?

Being able to quickly see the list is very useful. That could be done with git<SPACE><TAB>, except some people want that to be lobotomized to show only a fraction of the total. My mind boggles at that one.

But see my other post.  I'm over it.

-- Perry