From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Redirect "git" subcommand to itself?
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 01:22:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150528052227.GA24895@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqoal5ii21.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 06:53:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I wonder if we want to make a "git" subcommand, which behaves exactly
> > the same as git itself?
> > Then "git git git status" would just return the same as "git status".
>
> A few unrelated thoughts.
>
> * Perhaps we should omit 'git' from these advice-texts? E.g.
>
> use "revert --abort" to cancel
>
> I dunno.
Please don't. You help the set of people who type "git" and then paste
the rest of the command at the expense of people who just paste the
whole command. We don't know the relative numbers of those people, but
we know there is at least 1 in each group. ;)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-28 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-28 0:28 Redirect "git" subcommand to itself? Stefan Beller
2015-05-28 1:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28 5:22 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-05-29 8:38 ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-05-29 13:24 ` Aaron Schrab
2015-05-29 15:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-29 16:00 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-29 16:41 ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-05-29 16:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28 10:36 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2015-05-28 13:11 ` Matthieu Moy
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