From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:30:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts
Message-ID: <7vpsbpp6fz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061115061833.GA6294@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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.