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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: bug: unexpected output for "git st" + suggestion
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:38:56 +0100
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Tarek Ziad=C3=A9 <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.=
com> wrote:
> ...
>>
>> There's another command that starts with "st": stripspace (it's a
>> lowlevel command by the way). It's going to be a lot more if you typ=
e
>> "git m" and expect all commands starting with 'm'.
>
> Maybe so yeah. That's how Mercurial does.
>
> $  hg s
> hg: command 's' is ambiguous:
>     serve showconfig status strip summary

Mercurial allows unique abbreviations.  Git doesn't.  Thus a git comman=
d
is never ambiguous.

Andreas.

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