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Re: [PATCH] gitcli: drop mention of “non-dashed form”

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 1, 2024, 18:35 UTC
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Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> writes:
> ... These days though it seems like an irrelevant point to make to
> budding CLI scripters—you don’t have to warn against a style that
> probably doesn’t even work on their git(1) installation.

It is very true. It is still technically correct that you should prefer spelling "git cat-file" instead of "git-cat-file", as the latter may not work for you at all ;-).

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  1. gitcli: drop mention of “non-dashed form”Kristoffer Haugsbakk, Mar 1, 2024
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