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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> Agreed, except that git-convert-cache and git-fsck-cache actually have 
> nothing to do this the index by any name, and should probably be 
> git-convert-objects and git-fsck-objects.

You are right.

> I think "fetch" is more applicable to what they do.

OK.  then they are git-http-fetch and friends.  How about
git-ssh-push?  The counterpart of fetch-pack/clone-pack is
called upload-pack, so would git-ssh-upload make things more
consistent?  I dunno.

> I don't think it matters very much whether something is a script or not; 
> on the other hand, it would be good to have "git" list a reasonable set of 
> commands to use through the interface, which would exclude, for example, 
> git-merge-one-file-script, and include the above commands.

Are you suggesting to drop -script from git-merge-one-file?
Then git-cherry should perhaps keep its current name.