Re: Joining cg-*-id

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:40:49PM CEST, I got a letter
where Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> told me that...
> Hello!

Hello,

> I believe Cogito should keep the command list short.  When the *-id
> utilities got the cg-prefix, the list became longer by 3 commands.

well, those commands are semi-public, actually. E.g. cg-help does not
list them.

> What if we join cg-commit-id, cg-parent-id and cg-tree-id into one cg-id
> (or cg-admin-id) utility?  It would work like cg-commit-id in absence of
> switches, -p would make it work like cg-parent-id, and -t would make it
> cg-tree-id.

Perhaps cg-object-id? I'm not principially opposed to that, but I don't
see much value in it either. Perhaps if this would come along with
the usage of git-rev-parse (see below)...

> Alternatively, this functionality should go to git.  It's low-level
> enough to be there.

There is git-rev-parse, but it is not as powerful (cannot take dates and
sha1 completion does not work when listing parents) - OTOH it can
complete sha1 ids even inside packs, which is really useful. Still, IMHO
its usage is awful, so it'd take place for cg-Xnormid, but we would
still keep the *-id frontends (which would also handle the dates).

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