From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:36:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] "init-db" can really be just "init" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vmz6cfsuw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nicolas Pitre writes: > > > Maybe that could be a good rule of thumb to have all porcelainish > > commands not have any hyphen in their name, like "diff", "commit", > > "add", etc. ? > > I was also hoping that would become the case except verify-tag, > cherry-pick, and format-patch. I agree it might make a good rule-of-thumb, but let's not be overzealous. I have yet to see any better names for those three either, let alone better names without a hyphen. > Also I was wondering if it would make sense to give two dashes to the > back-end ones that never get invoked by the end users directly (e.g. > merge--recursive, upload--pack) but thought it was too ugly. I think it would appeal mostly to our friends, the monotone users... Ciao, Dscho