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Re: Renaming a remote is 'rename', but removing is 'rm'

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Sep 6, 2012, 03:53 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
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> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Looking at the remote command list, "rm" is the only abbreviation. I
>> guess we should add "delete" (or "remove") as an alias for "rm".
>
> I'd vote for "remove", to make it clear that "rm" is the abbreviation.
Sounds sensible.  Please make it so.
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  1. Tomas CarneckySep 5, 2012
  2. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 5, 2012
  3. Matthieu MoySep 5, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2012
  5. remote: prefer subcommand name 'remove' to 'rm'Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Sep 6, 2012

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