From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Teemu Likonen Subject: Re: git status options feature suggestion Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:40:25 +0300 Message-ID: <87od1qrqhi.fsf@iki.fi> References: <81bfc67a0810082234p55e2fb9jb2a10f837eea7de0@mail.gmail.com> <20081009061136.GA24288@coredump.intra.peff.net> <81bfc67a0810082327p421ca4e9v84f4b33023bc6fe6@mail.gmail.com> <81bfc67a0810082327q71b9d6apf2787eb8519031bb@mail.gmail.com> <48EE1F58.2060707@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20081012044900.GA27845@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vwsgegvsh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <971DCAD3-3274-4507-AE3D-5BDCEDB8513C@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Michael J Gruber , Johannes Schindelin , Caleb Cushing , git@vger.kernel.org To: Wincent Colaiuta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 12 13:42:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KozKd-0007ek-3k for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:41:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751716AbYJLLkn (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:40:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751867AbYJLLkn (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:40:43 -0400 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:51916 "EHLO kirsi2.inet.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751716AbYJLLkm (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:40:42 -0400 Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by kirsi2.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 48DA300B00EFEF77; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:40:27 +0300 Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KozJB-0001Ih-Bx; Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:40:25 +0300 In-Reply-To: <971DCAD3-3274-4507-AE3D-5BDCEDB8513C@wincent.com> (Wincent Colaiuta's message of "Sun\, 12 Oct 2008 12\:47\:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Wincent Colaiuta writes: > I think if you're introducing a different command then you should make > sure it doesn't happen to be an abbreviation of an existing one. It > would be better to give it some other name (info, foo, whatever). If > svn people then want to make an "st" alias pointing to it they're free > to do so. In Subversion and Bazaar "info" command gives mostly information about the repository itself. They don't talk about individual files at all. "status" is the command (also in Mercurial) for getting information about the current state of files in the tree. I think it would be really sad if "git status" can't be extended to match people's needs. I don't like the idea of a new name for such status command. It's a kind of "why git people always invent new names for familiar commands?" thing.