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From: jidanni@jidanni•org
To: gitzilla@gmail•com
Cc: bss@iguanasuicide•net, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:22:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocyu4o6e.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 495940AD.2070602@gmail.com

>> That shouldn't be a problem for much longer because "git-whatever"
>> will stop working.  From what I understand, "git whatever" has
>> always been the preferred form, and the fact that "git-whatever"
>> worked was just a implementation detail.

I thought if A worked from the start, and now B also works, you all
must have been moving to B, and so I made all my shell scripts use B.

ALAS> This is a revisionist history. Check the history of the git command to
ALAS> find out when it was created and then check the ML archives for
ALAS> related discussions.

All I know is we beginners just encounter both forms in the literature
and won't know about looking into whatever histories... and assumed until
this post that git-whatever was the new style! OK, now I know the truth.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-29 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-29  6:25 some git-commands --help don't act like git commands --help jidanni
2008-12-29  8:53 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-12-29  9:48   ` Michael Gaber
2008-12-29  9:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-29 19:37     ` "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"? jidanni
2008-12-29 20:47       ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-29 21:27         ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-12-29 22:22           ` jidanni [this message]
2008-12-29 23:19           ` jidanni

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