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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Stephan Beyer, Tue, Jul 01, 2008 04:38:30 +0200:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> here is the patchset for the git-sequencer prototype, documentation,
>> test suite and a first git-am and git-rebase-i migration.
>> Indeed, monster patches. ;)
>
> BTW, how about renaming it in something short: git seq. There is
> already a seq(1) in GNU coreutils, which does roughly the same (prints
> a sequence of numbers), why not reuse the name?

Is it advantageous to use shorter but less descriptive name for this
command?  It will be a backend to am/rebase and not something the users
will type from the command line, won't it?