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Re: [PATCH/RFC] "init-db" can really be just "init"

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 27, 2006, 22:05 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> This should make first GIT impression a little less intimidating.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>

I was not sure about this for quite some time, thinking that it might make sense to default the behaviour of init-db for bare repositories and give init as a user-level wrapper to drive init-db to add customization suitable for repositories with working trees. List?

> Maybe that could be a good rule of thumb to have all porcelainish 
> commands not have any hyphen in their name, like "diff", "commit", 
> "add", etc. ?

I was also hoping that would become the case except verify-tag, cherry-pick, and format-patch. Also I was wondering if it would make sense to give two dashes to the back-end ones that never get invoked by the end users directly (e.g. merge--recursive, upload--pack) but thought it was too ugly.

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Message 2 of 25 in “"init-db" can really be just "init"”
  1. "init-db" can really be just "init"Nicolas Pitre, Nov 27, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 27, 2006
  3. Hyphens and hiding core commands (was: "init-db" can really be just "init")Carl Worth, Nov 27, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 27, 2006
  5. Carl WorthNov 28, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2006
  7. Carl WorthNov 28, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2006
  9. 0/2 Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".Junio C Hamano, Nov 28, 2006
  10. Andy WhitcroftNov 28, 2006
  11. Josef WeidendorferNov 28, 2006
  12. Jakub NarebskiNov 28, 2006
  13. Carl WorthNov 28, 2006
  14. Salikh ZakirovNov 30, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiNov 30, 2006
  16. Seth FalconNov 30, 2006
  17. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 30, 2006
  18. Seth FalconNov 30, 2006
  19. Jakub NarebskiNov 30, 2006
  20. Andy WhitcroftNov 30, 2006
  21. 1/2 git-commit: prepare to make '-a' behaviour the default.Junio C Hamano, Nov 28, 2006
  22. 2/2 git-commit: make '-a' the default.Junio C Hamano, Nov 28, 2006
  23. Jakub NarebskiNov 28, 2006
  24. Johannes SchindelinNov 27, 2006
  25. Han-Wen NienhuysNov 28, 2006

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