Re: bug: unexpected output for "git st" + suggestion

From: Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2010, 13:18 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote: ...

>
> There's another command that starts with "st": stripspace (it's a
> lowlevel command by the way). It's going to be a lot more if you type
> "git m" and expect all commands starting with 'm'.

Maybe so yeah. That's how Mercurial does.

$  hg s
hg: command 's' is ambiguous:
    serve showconfig status strip summary

> Personally I would
> do "git help -a|grep st" in that case. Hmm.. "git apropos" could be a
> good idea.

I guess.

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>> That's what the tab completion does:
>>
>> $ git st<tab>
>> stage    stash    status
>
> And it does for tab _completion_ (notice stripspace is missing,
> git-completion.sh only lists high level commands). The above case is
> to help mistyping.

Right. Overall, I guess it's just a cultural thing. Using mainly Mercurial, "st" means for me "status" so I was surprised not to find it as a suggestion.

Cheers Tarek

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