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[PATCH 1/3] Human friendly git: accept imperative mood.

From
SLSloof Lirpa <sitemaster@cox.net>
Date
Apr 1, 2007, 00:00 UTC
Message-ID
<7vmz1t557v.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

The traditional syntax in computerese to tell a person to do something for us is:

	> thief, go west
With this patch, you can now say:
	$ git, fetch $URL
Signed-off-by: Sloof Lirpa <sitemaster@cox.net>
---
 Makefile |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b159ffd..2699cff 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ EXTRA_PROGRAMS =
 BUILT_INS = \
 	git-format-patch$X git-show$X git-whatchanged$X git-cherry$X \
 	git-get-tar-commit-id$X git-init$X git-repo-config$X \
-	git-fsck-objects$X git-cherry-pick$X \
+	git-fsck-objects$X git-cherry-pick$X git,$X \
 	$(patsubst builtin-%.o,git-%$X,$(BUILTIN_OBJS))
 
 # what 'all' will build and 'install' will install, in gitexecdir
-- 
1.5.1.rc3.26.g4f01
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