From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C2B1F8C9 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233444AbhGLQmN (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:42:13 -0400 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.28]:56825 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230184AbhGLQmM (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:42:12 -0400 Received: from [79.233.237.92] (helo=[192.168.2.202]) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1m2yxx-0005YR-0X; Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:39:33 +0200 Subject: Re: PATCH: improve git switch documentation To: Felipe Contreras , Sergey Organov Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org References: <87wnqaclz8.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <60e5f3981de5f_301437208bc@natae.notmuch> <87bl7d3l8r.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <60e61bbd7a37d_3030aa2081a@natae.notmuch> <877di13hhe.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <60e67389a4adc_306ac1208fd@natae.notmuch> <4057b3ac-a77c-0d5f-d3f4-ad781754aae4@mfriebe.de> <60e736e72da68_30939020850@natae.notmuch> <155308af-42ad-b044-fb37-676251a9b7e1@mfriebe.de> <60e762243aab1_30a7b02089@natae.notmuch> <2b85a7eb-d0be-65e7-ecbb-1750abf53e53@mfriebe.de> <60e79c31aaa72_30b8a4208c1@natae.notmuch> <65362688-b65b-661c-20c1-94d7dc2118c7@mfriebe.de> <60e874e1c6845_215320861@natae.notmuch> <87im1ieaba.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <1bd36aa2-ac90-f7d4-9d48-1aa39159b263@mfriebe.de> <87a6mudt9b.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <60e9ff4430c57_7ef20815@natae.notmuch> <874kd1gr0q.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <60ec6cd622c4c_a4525208a0@natae.notmuch> From: Martin Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:39:18 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <60ec6cd622c4c_a4525208a0@natae.notmuch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: bWVAbWZyaWViZS5kZQ== Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 12/07/2021 18:24, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Sergey Organov wrote: > Even standardizing `git branch` would be an almost-impossible task, even > if we manage to convince others. `git new branch` even more impossible. > Not sure but from the glance at hg that I took, they seem to use the plural for nouns. So then we could have git branch git branches new // long version git branches list git branches delete .... However, standardizing to a fixed verb/noun rule will still be more than a challenge. The above would as guildeline be git verb or git plural-noun verb Yet try to do that with git status git log I don't see how a better alternative for those can be found. One that actually is accepted because it's better, not just because it follows a rule. status, is not a verb log is the wrong verb, or again a noun.