From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:12:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prepare deprecation of git-revert
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811021706580.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081102093225.GA32296@laptop>

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

>     Add git command expansion
>     
>     This allows git commands to be typed shorter (in shells that do not
>     support autocompletion). There are three types of expansion:
>     
>      - "foo" matches "foo*" commands (bi -> bisect)
>      - "foo" also matches "f*-oo*" (fim -> fast-import)
>      - "foo-bar" (with dash) matches "foo*-bar*" (fo-p -> format-patch)

I'd rather have the soft-alias code back to perform this expansion, but 
only for a limited and explicit set of abbreviations.

Ciao,
Dscho