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Re: Git's inconsistent command line options

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 25, 2015, 15:13 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Even though I have worked with Git since 2009, I still have to
> reference the help to remind me of what parameter to use in certain
> situation simply because similar tasks differ so much.
>
> Maybe we could address this in the next major version of Git? Has
> anybody else thought about this or started work on this? Or was this
> discussed before and declined (link?).

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/231478 comes to mind, which has been linked from this entry:

Discuss and decide if we want to choose between the "mode word" UI (e.g. "git submodule add") and the "mode option" UI (e.g. "git tag --delete") and standardise on one; if it turns out to be a good idea, devise the migration plan to break the backward-compatibility.

in http://git-blame.blogspot.com/p/leftover-bits.html
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