Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 15, 2006, 06:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7vpsbpp6fz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061115061833.GA6294@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> Or even better, have "gh init".
>
> Why gh?  Is Git just Mercurial backwards?  :)
>
> I'm all in favor of this discussion, and in particular of just
> breaking the entire UI in 2.0 by using a new frontend command.
> I'm just not sure that "Mercurial backwards" describes Git well.

I do not have any obsession to any name as long as it is different from "git" to avoid confusion coming from older documents that would be found by googling. gh was just shorthand for "git for humans" (and easy to type with index fingers). I think I listed a few other possibilities in my previous message.

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