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should git command and git-command be equivalent?

Subject: should git command and git-command be equivalent?

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6 messages between Oct 16, 2007 and Oct 16, 2007.

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franky· Oct 16, 2007, 03:22 UTC · lore

	I use git-init frequently and it confuses me for a long time that I
can't init a bare repository. 
	I just found I can do that by "git -bare init". However, I get used
to "git-init" and I always tried "git-init -bare" (of course failed)
	And I thought git-init and "git init" were always the same as most
newbies of git. So, should git init and git-init be equivalent? If not, I
think the document should be supplemented to clarify this.

 franky

Matthieu Moy· Oct 16, 2007, 07:48 UTC · re: franky · lore

Re: should git command and git-command be equivalent?

"franky" <yinping@kooxoo.com> writes:

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> 	I use git-init frequently and it confuses me for a long time that I
> can't init a bare repository. 
> 	I just found I can do that by "git -bare init". However, I get used
> to "git-init" and I always tried "git-init -bare" (of course failed)
> 	And I thought git-init and "git init" were always the same as most
> newbies of git.

AFAIK, git-init and "git init" are equivalent, but as you noticed already, the advantage of "git init" is that you can pass options to the git command, not only to the "init" subcommand.

Also, you can use aliases (for example, I type "git st" to do "git status") with "git whatever", but not with "git-whatever" (unless you define the alias in your shell).

The git-whatever syntax is more or less deprecated, although I guess it will stay forever at least for compatibility.

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Matthieu

franky· Oct 16, 2007, 08:47 UTC · re: Matthieu Moy · lore

RE: should git command and git-command be equivalent?

> Also, you can use aliases (for example, I type "git st" to do "git
> status") with "git whatever", but not with "git-whatever" (unless you
> define the alias in your shell).

I try "git st", but it complains "git: 'st' is not a git-command". Instead, I use gt-beginning abbreviation for some command frequently used such as gtci->git-commit, gtco-->git-checkout, gtst-->git-status, gtdi->git-diff, gtinit->git-init

So it will be wonderful if I can use "gtinit --bare"

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Matthieu Moy· Oct 16, 2007, 08:55 UTC · re: franky · lore

Re: should git command and git-command be equivalent?

"franky" <yinping@kooxoo.com> writes:

>> Also, you can use aliases (for example, I type "git st" to do "git
>> status") with "git whatever", but not with "git-whatever" (unless you
>> define the alias in your shell).
> I try "git st", but it complains "git: 'st' is not a git-command".

Sure, I'm talking about aliases, so what I meant is that I had

[alias]
	st = status

in ~/.gitconfig.

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> Instead, I use gt-beginning abbreviation for some command frequently used
> such as gtci->git-commit, gtco-->git-checkout, gtst-->git-status,
> gtdi->git-diff, gtinit->git-init
>
> So it will be wonderful if I can use "gtinit --bare"

You can't without defining gtinit as a simple-but-not-totally-trivial wrapper script.

But you can define an alias to init, to enable you to type

$ git --bare i

(that said, it could be a good idea for "git init" to accept --bare as an option too).

-- 
Matthieu

David Symonds· Oct 16, 2007, 12:28 UTC · re: Matthieu Moy · lore

Re: should git command and git-command be equivalent?

On 16/10/2007, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:

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> "franky" <yinping@kooxoo.com> writes:
>
> >> Also, you can use aliases (for example, I type "git st" to do "git
> >> status") with "git whatever", but not with "git-whatever" (unless you
> >> define the alias in your shell).
> > I try "git st", but it complains "git: 'st' is not a git-command".
>
> Sure, I'm talking about aliases, so what I meant is that I had
>
> [alias]
>         st = status
>
> in ~/.gitconfig.

If you use the contrib/completion/git-completion.bash script, you can type "git st<TAB>", and it'll complete it for you. Well, it did, until git-stash came along and ruined it...

At any rate, the bash completion also completes things like branch names, which can be immensely helpful.

Dave.

Matthieu Moy· Oct 16, 2007, 14:46 UTC · re: David Symonds · lore

Re: should git command and git-command be equivalent?

"David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:

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> If you use the contrib/completion/git-completion.bash script, you can
> type "git st<TAB>", and it'll complete it for you. Well, it did, until
> git-stash came along and ruined it...
>
> At any rate, the bash completion also completes things like branch
> names, which can be immensely helpful.

I don't use bash, but the zsh completion for git is also excellent.

But "git st" is still one less key to type than "git st<tab>" ;-).

-- 
Matthieu