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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule: make 'show' an alias for 'summary'
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:41:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vsj9yccoa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5069D24A.6060101@web.de> (Jens Lehmann's message of "Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:26:34 +0200")

Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:

> Me too would expect a show command to show me a list of all the
> submodules and maybe some extra information (is it populated or
> not, does it have its .git directory embedded, does it contain
> changes). So maybe "show" should be a slightly pimped "status"?

What's the next inventive way somebody who did not read the
documentation will come up with to spell the subcommand known as
"status"?  "submodule list"?

Do we really want 47 different subcommands that give the same output
or slight variations thereof?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-01 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-29 13:43 [PATCH] submodule: make 'show' an alias for 'summary' Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-29 13:43 ` [PATCH] submodule: use abbreviated sha1 in 'status' output Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-29 14:31   ` Jens Lehmann
2012-09-29 14:45     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-29 15:05       ` Jens Lehmann
2012-10-01  6:42         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-01 17:22           ` Jens Lehmann
2012-09-29 14:49 ` [PATCH] submodule: make 'show' an alias for 'summary' Jens Lehmann
2012-09-29 15:07   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-09-29 15:27     ` Jens Lehmann
2012-10-01  6:45       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-01 17:26         ` Jens Lehmann
2012-10-01 17:33           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-01 19:31             ` Jens Lehmann
2012-10-01 17:41           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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