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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 
find out when it was created and then check the ML archives for related 
discussions.

  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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