Re: [PATCH v2] rebase -i: add config to abbreviate command-names

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 26, 2017, 09:25 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1704261124250.3480@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpofzstsf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Running
> 
> $ git grep -i -e 'instruction [ls]' -e 'todo l'
> 
> lets us count how we call them, and we can see there is only one
> instance of 'instruction list'.
> 
> Running the above in v1.7.3 tree shows that it was originally called
> 'todo list', and we can see that an enhancement of cherry-pick in
> cd4093b6 ("Merge branch 'rr/revert-cherry-pick-continue'",
> 2011-10-05)) started calling this instruction sheet around v1.7.8.
> 
> A follow-on patch to unify all three would be nice, indeed.

But we cannot unify them, as the config option's name uses "instruction" and to keep backwards-compatibility, we are simply unable to resolve the confusion.

Ciao, Dscho