Re: Collection of stgit issues and wishes
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
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- Dec 13, 2006, 10:20 UTC
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David Kågedal wrote:
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> "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 08/12/06, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote: >>> - shortcuts (st -> status, etc.), possibly making use of the git alias >>> system ? >> Did this last night as it was pretty easy and without the GIT alias >> system (which I am not familiar with). The idea is that if it cannot >> find an exact match, it tries to look for all the commands starting >> with the passed argument. If more than one command is found, it >> reports an "ambiguous command". > > That approach can cause problems later on. If "stgit st" is currently > a unique prefix of "stgit status", people might use it in scripts. > Then, one day, you add the "stgit store" command, or whatever, and > their scripts start breaking for no good reason. >
People who use abbreviations of commands in scripts ought to be shot, not catered to, especially if they know this abbreviation is automagically calculated.
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