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

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Dec 29, 2008, 19:37 UTC
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JCH> I think he is comparing "git am" and "git-am" the latter of which is now JCH> deprecated and largely removed from the end user.

By the way, we here at the end user end have a hard time detecting if "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"...

Idea: right at top of "man git" say: You might have noticed sometimes
people write "git-whatever" and sometimes write "git whatever", well ...

JCH> IOW, the seeming inconsistency is not an issue anymore in practice in the JCH> post 1.6.0 era.

(I was just hoping everything is consistent, one way or the other.)
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