David Kågedal wrote:
"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On 08/12/06, Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
- shortcuts (st -> status, etc.), possibly making use of the git alias
system ?
Did this last night as it was pretty easy and without the GIT alias
system (which I am not familiar with). The idea is that if it cannot
find an exact match, it tries to look for all the commands starting
with the passed argument. If more than one command is found, it
reports an "ambiguous command".
That approach can cause problems later on. If "stgit st" is currently
a unique prefix of "stgit status", people might use it in scripts.
Then, one day, you add the "stgit store" command, or whatever, and
their scripts start breaking for no good reason.
People who use abbreviations of commands in scripts ought to be shot,
not catered to, especially if they know this abbreviation is
automagically calculated.
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