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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Unify subcommand structure; introduce double dashes for all subcommands?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:52:34 -0700
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Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com> writes:

> A git command is generally setup as:
> 	git <command> [<subcommand>] [<options>] ...
>
> The subcommands vary wildly by the nature of the command. However all
> subcommands
> could at least follow one style. The commands bundle, notes, stash and
> submodule
> have subcommands without two leading dashes (i.e. git stash list) as
> opposed to all
> other commands (i.e. git tag --list).

Sounds familiar.  E.g. here is a similar thread about a year ago.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/231376/focus=231478

Further discussions to make the plan more concrete is very much
welcomed.

Thanks.