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Re: Should git-citool be in mainporcelain in command-list?

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 6, 2010, 22:17 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 22:07, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> The entries in git(1) don't indicate that citool is a convenience
>> alias for git-gui:
>
> That's because it isn't, no?

I mean "convenience" interchangeably with "standard" as this paragraph uses it:

>       git citool is actually a standard alias for git gui
>       citool. See git-gui(1) for more details.

I.e. `git gui citool` and `git citool` launch the same thing, the latter is just a shorter way to do it.

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