From: Andreas Schwab Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:38:56 GMT Subject: Re: bug: unexpected output for "git st" + suggestion Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Tarek Ziadé writes: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > ... >> >> There's another command that starts with "st": stripspace (it's a >> lowlevel command by the way). It's going to be a lot more if you type >> "git m" and expect all commands starting with 'm'. > > Maybe so yeah. That's how Mercurial does. > > $ hg s > hg: command 's' is ambiguous: > serve showconfig status strip summary Mercurial allows unique abbreviations. Git doesn't. Thus a git command is never ambiguous. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."