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

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2010, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimRoAgAtrkpyd08mVG93prQ40B1y=ReLRdNfbWt@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100906213937.GF26371@burratino>

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 21:39, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> Maybe there should be an aliases category:
>>
>>     $ grep -e git-gui -e citool command-list.txt
>>     git-citool                              mainporcelain
>>     git-gui                                 mainporcelain
>>
>> A very minor nit, just something I ran into while gettext-izing and
>> wondered "what's that".
>>
>> But I'm probably the only one that's used command-list.txt for
>> anything non-Make related in a while :)
>
> Its main purpose is to populate the command list in git.1:
>
>   Main porcelain commands
> [...]
>        git-citool(1)
>           Graphical alternative to git-commit.
> [...]
>        git-gui(1)
>           A portable graphical interface to Git.
>
> What do you think this should say?  (Honest question --- I
> haven't thought hard about it.)

I haven't either, and I don't use git-gui or the git citool alias. I didn't even know about it until yesterday.

The entries in git(1) don't indicate that citool is a convenience alias for git-gui:

       git-gui(1)
           A portable graphical interface to Git.

       git-citool(1)
           Graphical alternative to git-commit.

Maybe it shouldn't be listed there at all to avoid confusion, or maybe it should be in an aliases category to clearly indicate its function as a convenience alias in the manpage.