Re: [PATCH] Add shell completion for git remote rm

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 07:44:19AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> PS. This also makes me thing about supporting subcommand aliases, so
>> that people can add back 'git remote rm' if they like (or something
>> like 'git r rm' when they alias 'remote' as well). Which is probably a
>> good thing to do. Long command names are fine when you have completion
>> support, they are a pain to type otherwise.
>>
>
> Couldn't they just create an alias like git rrm then, if they use it so
> often that it becomes an issue?

They could. The only exception that may not work is if they want to
insert some options between "r" and "rm". Sometimes option positions
matter. Anyway this is just thinking out loud, maybe we don't really
need it until people scream about it with a valid use case

> Having another layer of aliases does create a lot of complexity.

Yes. It's partly the reason I wanted this actually ;-) Many commands
have gained subcommands nowadays but there's no shared infrastructure
for managing these subcommands. By adding something that works across
the board at subcommand level I'm forced to "fix" this (or probably
never get to do the sub-aliasing because this "fix" takes forever).
-- 
Duy