Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 20, 2005, 22:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504201503050.6467@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050420215117.GJ19112@pasky.ji.cz>

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:

> 
> Grm. Cg is also name of some scary NVidia thing, and cog is GNOME
> Configurator. CGT are Chimera Grid Tools, but I think we can clash
> with those - at least *I* wouldn't mind. ;-)

I realize that there is probably a law that there has to be a space, but I actually personally use tab-completion all the time, and in many ways prefer a name that can be completed without having to play games with magic bash completion files.

So how about using a dash instead of a space, and making things be

	cg-pull
	cg-update

etc? You can link them all to the same script if you don't like having multiple scripts, and just match with

	case "$0" in
	*-pull)
		...
		;;
	*-update)
		...
		;;

or something.

Yeah, yeah, it looks different from "cvs update", but dammit, wouldn't it be cool to just write "cg-<tab><tab>" and see the command choices? Or "cg-up<tab>" and get cg-update done for you..

Just because rcs/cvs/everybody-and-his-dog thinks it is cool to have a space there and have different meaning for flags depending on whether they are before the command or after the command doesn't mean that they are necessarily right..

Just an idea,

		Linus