Re: [PATCH 5/5] config: add default aliases

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2021, 10:46 UTC
Message-ID: <60deee85f2786_744208cb@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <87wnq99fdd.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab wrote:

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> On Jul 02 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 
> > Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> On Jul 02 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> 
> >> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> >> > index 340c5fbb48..32b1fdba45 100644
> >> > --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> >> > +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
> >> > @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
> >> >  	   [(--trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>])...] [-S[<keyid>]]
> >> >  	   [--] [<pathspec>...]
> >> >  
> >> > +ALIAS
> >> > +~~~~~
> >> > +'git co'
> >> 
> >> That's `checkout' in hg, bzr, svn and cvs.
> >
> > I know, and commit is ci in many of them.
> 
> What's the point of making git different if the goal is to make it
> similar?

The goal is not to make git identical to every other SCM; it's to take the best ideas (not all of them).

> Everyone will associate co with checkout.

I don't think so. Fortunately there's other people in the mailing list that can opine.

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Felipe Contreras