Re: [PATCH 09/19] Add git-list-files, a user friendly version of ls-files and more

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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday, November 30, 2014, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> This is more user friendly version of ls-files:
>>
>> * it's automatically colored and columnized
>> * it refreshes the index like all porcelain commands
>> * it defaults to non-recursive behavior like ls
>> * :(glob) is on by default so '*.c' means a.c but not a/b.c, use
>>   '**/*.c' for that.
>> * auto pager
>>
>> The name 'ls' is not taken. It is left for the user to make an alias
>> with better default options.
>
> I understand that your original version was named git-ls and that you
> renamed it to git-list-files in order to leave 'ls' available so users
> can create an 'ls' alias specifying their own default options. Would
> it make sense, however, to restore the name to git-ls and allow users
> to set default options via a config variable instead? Doing so would
> make the short-and-sweet git-ls command work for all users
> out-of-the-box, which might be well appreciated by Unix users.

Or I just make git-ls the first alias shipped by default.. I don't
really like using config var to define default options. Sounds like a
workaround to our alias. Jeff raised it elsewhere in this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/260423/focus=260538
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Duy
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