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From: "David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Collection of stgit issues and wishes
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:22:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7pc2rc7.fsf@morpheus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b0943d9e0612120143j7d0c1026rab046c8f44ec43ca@mail.gmail.com

"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:

> On 08/12/06, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
>> - shortcuts (st -> status, etc.), possibly making use of the git alias
>> system ?
>
> Did this last night as it was pretty easy and without the GIT alias
> system (which I am not familiar with). The idea is that if it cannot
> find an exact match, it tries to look for all the commands starting
> with the passed argument. If more than one command is found, it
> reports an "ambiguous command".

That approach can cause problems later on.  If "stgit st" is currently
a unique prefix of "stgit status", people might use it in scripts.
Then, one day, you add the "stgit store" command, or whatever, and
their scripts start breaking for no good reason.

-- 
David Kågedal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-13 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-08 22:17 Collection of stgit issues and wishes Yann Dirson
2006-12-08 22:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-10  8:55   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-10 11:06     ` Jakub Narebski
     [not found]       ` <b0943d9e0612100831t7b79d4b1p436de5dbb813e51a@mail.gmail.com>
2006-12-10 17:01         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-10 22:26           ` Catalin Marinas
2006-12-10 23:02             ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-10 23:24               ` Catalin Marinas
2006-12-10 23:37                 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-11 12:59                   ` Catalin Marinas
2006-12-21 11:39                     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-11 18:41               ` Yann Dirson
2006-12-13 22:14                 ` Catalin Marinas
2006-12-21 23:48                   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-10 16:25 ` Catalin Marinas
2006-12-17 23:15   ` Yann Dirson
2006-12-12  9:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2006-12-12 10:02   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-13  7:22   ` David Kågedal [this message]
2006-12-13 10:20     ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-13 11:03       ` Karl Hasselström
2006-12-17 23:21         ` Yann Dirson

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