Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Nov 30, 2007, 15:50 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711300745330.8458@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071130152942.GA22489@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 04:28:21PM +0100, Santi Béjar wrote:
> > > But I am not opposed to having some "git foo" form for gitk.
> > 
> > In mercurial "hg view" is actually an old version of gitk modified for hg.
> > 
> > And as "git view" it could be added to the "git help" list.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is already a "gitview" program similar to gitk,
> although it never made it out of contrib/.

Well, different people will want different viewers *anyway* (ie some will prefer qgit etc), so how about making "git view" be something that literally acts as a built-in alias that just defaults to running gitk (if for no other reason than the fact that gitk is the one that ships with git, and simply has most users).

There's a few other things that I think we could consider to be good built-in aliases: things like "git cat" being an alias for "git -p cat-file -p" etc.

The only difference between a "built-in alias" and a "built-in command" 
would be:
 - the alias has never even had the "git-xyz" format, and never will
 - the alias can be overridden by user aliases unlike "real" git commands

Hmm?

That way we can hide away gitk too (although I do suspect that we might as well just leave gitk in the path - it's different in naming from all the git-xyz commands anyway)

		Linus