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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What is missing from Git v2.0
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:37:55 -0500
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David Lang wrote:
> agreed, of all the things that people complain about regarding learning git,
> the fact that the commands are words instead of cryptic 2 letter
> abberviations is not one of them.

It is when they start to use Git seriously and type them a lot.

> The complaints tend to be far more about how there are inconsistancies
> between commands, or they don't understand what's happening.

Yes, but you don't see anybody trying to improve those, do you?

This is low-hanging fruit we can actually change.

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Felipe Contreras