From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:09:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git status usage say git status instead of git commit
Message-ID: <854pf0hyy3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7vir3gqr3d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> As a side question, should the usage information also use the non
>> dash notation of the command since it is deprecated?  I noticed all
>> of the other commands are presently using the dash form, so I left it
>> as is for now.
>
> Wise choice.  We would probably want to clean them up at the same time
> early post 1.5.4.

Deprecating the dash form will probably mean that we need to think up
(and document) a rationale for

  man git-commit

I actually have typed something like

  man git commit

a number of times already with obvious results.  Finger memory.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum