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Re: git status options feature suggestion

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TLTeemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date
Oct 12, 2008, 11:40 UTC
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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:
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> I think if you're introducing a different command then you should make
> sure it doesn't happen to be an abbreviation of an existing one. It
> would be better to give it some other name (info, foo, whatever). If
> svn people then want to make an "st" alias pointing to it they're free
> to do so.

In Subversion and Bazaar "info" command gives mostly information about the repository itself. They don't talk about individual files at all. "status" is the command (also in Mercurial) for getting information about the current state of files in the tree.

I think it would be really sad if "git status" can't be extended to match people's needs. I don't like the idea of a new name for such status command. It's a kind of "why git people always invent new names for familiar commands?" thing.

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  1. Caleb CushingOct 9, 2008
  2. Jeff KingOct 9, 2008
  3. Fwd: git status options feature suggestionCaleb Cushing, Oct 9, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinOct 9, 2008
  5. Michael J GruberOct 9, 2008
  6. Caleb CushingOct 10, 2008
  7. Elijah NewrenOct 10, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinOct 10, 2008
  9. Jeff KingOct 12, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2008
  11. Jeff KingOct 12, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2008
  13. Jeff KingOct 13, 2008
  14. Shawn O. PearceOct 13, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 26, 2008
  16. Jeff KingOct 26, 2008
  17. Shawn O. PearceOct 12, 2008
  18. Jeff KingOct 13, 2008
  19. Jakub NarebskiOct 12, 2008
  20. Wincent ColaiutaOct 12, 2008
  21. Teemu LikonenOct 12, 2008
  22. Andreas EricssonOct 12, 2008
  23. Jeff KingOct 12, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2008
  25. Jeff KingOct 13, 2008
  26. ls-files [Was: Re: Fwd: git status options feature suggestion]James Cloos, Oct 9, 2008
  27. Shawn O. PearceOct 9, 2008
  28. Jeremy RamerOct 9, 2008
  29. James CloosOct 9, 2008

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