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Subject: Re: File Systems and a Theory of Edits
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Am 31.07.2011 16:13, schrieb Michael Nahas:
> I don't doubt that there exists current commands in git that can perf=
orm
> operations like cat, ls, etc.  My point is that git can make it easie=
r
> for new users to learn commands and existing users to remember comman=
ds
> if git copies the name and sematics (as much as possible) of cat, ls,=
 etc.

Possibly.  My point was that for this example a look-alike was easy to
implement as an alias or shell script using an existing plumbing
command.  You can probably get quite far to your goal that way.

Ren=E9