From: René Scharfe Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:16:35 GMT Subject: Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits Message-ID: <4E357FE3.1040205@lsrfire.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: Am 31.07.2011 16:13, schrieb Michael Nahas: > I don't doubt that there exists current commands in git that can perform > operations like cat, ls, etc. My point is that git can make it easier > for new users to learn commands and existing users to remember commands > if git copies the name and sematics (as much as possible) of cat, ls, etc. Possibly. My point was that for this example a look-alike was easy to implement as an alias or shell script using an existing plumbing command. You can probably get quite far to your goal that way. René