Subject: Re: bug: unexpected output for "git st" + suggestion

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:38:56 +0100

Tarek Ziadé <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <[email-masked]> 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 type
>> "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 command
is never ambiguous.

Andreas.

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