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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:04:46 -0400
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Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch>,
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:45:26PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> It's not very convincing, because the bash completions script file for git 
> is installed by default[1] which completes both forms, so the new user will 
> experience instead:
> 
> git<space><tab><tab>.... what? 140-something commands? etc.etc.

The bash completion has the luxury of not mentioning some commands if
they are likely to be confusing (i.e., very low-level plumbing).

That being said, it still produces 70-something commands.

-Peff