From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"?
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:27:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <495940AD.2070602@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812291447.01713.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 2008 December 29 13:37:19 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>> JCH> I think he is comparing "git am" and "git-am" the latter of which is
>> JCH> now deprecated and largely removed from the end user.
>>
>> By the way, we here at the end user end have a hard time detecting if
>> "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"...
>
> That shouldn't be a problem for much longer because "git-whatever" will stop
> working. From what I understand, "git whatever" has always been the
> preferred form, and the fact that "git-whatever" worked was just a
> implementation detail.
This is a revisionist history. Check the history of the git command to
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-29 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-29 6:25 some git-commands --help don't act like git commands --help jidanni
2008-12-29 8:53 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-12-29 9:48 ` Michael Gaber
2008-12-29 9:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-29 19:37 ` "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"? jidanni
2008-12-29 20:47 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-29 21:27 ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2008-12-29 22:22 ` jidanni
2008-12-29 23:19 ` jidanni
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