Re: PATCH: improve git switch documentation

From: Martin <git@mfriebe.de>
Date: Jul 12, 2021, 16:39 UTC
Message-ID: <f0770358-be4c-a747-0851-b2fd73c1978e@mfriebe.de>
In-Reply-To: <60ec6cd622c4c_a4525208a0@natae.notmuch>

On 12/07/2021 18:24, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> Sergey Organov wrote:
> Even standardizing `git branch` would be an almost-impossible task, even
> if we manage to convince others. `git new branch` even more impossible.
>

Not sure but from the glance at hg that I took, they seem to use the plural for nouns.

So then we could have

   git branch <new-branch-name>

   git branches new   // long version
   git branches list
   git branches delete
   ....

However, standardizing to a fixed verb/noun rule will still be more than a challenge.

The above would as guildeline be

   git verb
or
   git plural-noun verb

Yet try to do that with
   git status
   git log

I don't see how a better alternative for those can be found. One that actually is accepted because it's better, not just because it follows a rule.

status, is not a verb log is the wrong verb, or again a noun.