Re: [PATCH/RFC] "init-db" can really be just "init"

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Hi,

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Maybe that could be a good rule of thumb to have all porcelainish 
> > commands not have any hyphen in their name, like "diff", "commit", 
> > "add", etc. ?
> 
> I was also hoping that would become the case except verify-tag,
> cherry-pick, and format-patch.

I agree it might make a good rule-of-thumb, but let's not be overzealous. 
I have yet to see any better names for those three either, let alone 
better names without a hyphen.

> Also I was wondering if it would make sense to give two dashes to the 
> back-end ones that never get invoked by the end users directly (e.g. 
> merge--recursive, upload--pack) but thought it was too ugly.

I think it would appeal mostly to our friends, the monotone users...

Ciao,
Dscho

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