On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> Personally I would
> do "git help -a|grep st" in that case. Hmm.. "git apropos" could be a
> good idea.
I guess.
>> That's what the tab completion does:
>>
>> $ git st<tab>
>> stage stash status
>
> And it does for tab _completion_ (notice stripspace is missing,
> git-completion.sh only lists high level commands). The above case is
> to help mistyping.
Right. Overall, I guess it's just a cultural thing. Using mainly
Mercurial, "st" means for me "status" so I was surprised not to find
it as a suggestion.
Cheers
Tarek
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