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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Should git-citool be in mainporcelain in command-list?
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:00:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimRoAgAtrkpyd08mVG93prQ40B1y=ReLRdNfbWt@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100906213937.GF26371@burratino>

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 21:39, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> Maybe there should be an aliases category:
>>
>>     $ grep -e git-gui -e citool command-list.txt
>>     git-citool                              mainporcelain
>>     git-gui                                 mainporcelain
>>
>> A very minor nit, just something I ran into while gettext-izing and
>> wondered "what's that".
>>
>> But I'm probably the only one that's used command-list.txt for
>> anything non-Make related in a while :)
>
> Its main purpose is to populate the command list in git.1:
>
>   Main porcelain commands
> [...]
>        git-citool(1)
>           Graphical alternative to git-commit.
> [...]
>        git-gui(1)
>           A portable graphical interface to Git.
>
> What do you think this should say?  (Honest question --- I
> haven't thought hard about it.)

I haven't either, and I don't use git-gui or the git citool alias. I
didn't even know about it until yesterday.

The entries in git(1) don't indicate that citool is a convenience
alias for git-gui:

       git-gui(1)
           A portable graphical interface to Git.

       git-citool(1)
           Graphical alternative to git-commit.

Maybe it shouldn't be listed there at all to avoid confusion, or maybe
it should be in an aliases category to clearly indicate its function
as a convenience alias in the manpage.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-06 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-06 21:27 Should git-citool be in mainporcelain in command-list? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 21:39 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-06 22:00   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2010-09-06 22:07     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-09-06 22:17       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-06 22:31         ` Jonathan Nieder

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