On 02/07/2021 12:54, Felipe Contreras wrote:
martin wrote:
IMHO it would be good to (partly) follow other vcs, and have
commit = ci
I'm fine with leaving co out of the default aliases if it's deemed "too
controversial".
But ci doesn't make sense. ci comes from "check in" which has no
similitude in git.
svn uses it for "commit".
It can be seen as CommIt.
But of course other letters can be picked. I don't see an advantage in
it though.
Like CoMmit cm ? or CommiT ct ? None of them seems any better to me.
I don't think it's a good idea to leave "git checkout" without an alias
(it's perhaps the second or third most used command), but at least some
aliases are better than no aliases.
Well, that goes back to a bigger question. And from the brief time I
have been on this mail
list, it appears to me there is a divide into 2 groups.
If checkout is really meant to give way to switch/restore then it needs
no further
advertising. And then the current usage statistics are a relict from the
before switch/restore time.
If on the other hand checkout is not just to be kept for backward
compatibility, but should
always remain an equal alternative to switch/restore (i.e. it should
still be taught to new
user in 20 years) then it wants to have a default alias.
