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Re: "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"?

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Date
Dec 29, 2008, 22:22 UTC
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>> That shouldn't be a problem for much longer because "git-whatever"
>> will stop working.  From what I understand, "git whatever" has
>> always been the preferred form, and the fact that "git-whatever"
>> worked was just a implementation detail.

I thought if A worked from the start, and now B also works, you all must have been moving to B, and so I made all my shell scripts use B.

ALAS> This is a revisionist history. Check the history of the git command to ALAS> find out when it was created and then check the ML archives for ALAS> related discussions.

All I know is we beginners just encounter both forms in the literature and won't know about looking into whatever histories... and assumed until this post that git-whatever was the new style! OK, now I know the truth.

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  6. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Dec 29, 2008
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