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Re: Git's inconsistent command line options

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 26, 2015, 20:48 UTC
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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> But notice that I said "if you really want to".  I personally think
>> it is a road to madness.
>
> Agreed. I don't believe in command line API here. I think we'd need a
> better solution.
>
> My gut says: Live with the warts on old commands and try to make
> people use command words for new commands.

A transition to make everybody to use subsubcommands (thereby changing what "git tag delete master" means) is impossible in practice. On the other hand, a transition to make everybody use command mode options (thereby allowing "git worktree list" to be also spelled as "git worktree --list") _is_ possible.

Has anybody created a handy catalog of Git commands with subcommands and command mode options? If we see such a list and replace the column of subcommands with command mode options, we might find that such a "command mode option only" world a pleasant future for us to live in, or an unpleasant one that we have to keep typing two extra dashes all the time. I cannot tell offhand.

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  6. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2015
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  9. Jacob KellerAug 26, 2015
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