From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:20:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Collection of stgit issues and wishes
Message-ID: <457FD3E4.3090104@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <87y7pc2rc7.fsf@morpheus.local>

David Kågedal wrote:
> "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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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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