martin wrote: > 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. I know, but it comes from CVS. In both CVS and Subversion "commit" pushes a commit, so it can be seen as the opposite of "checkout", which pulls a commit. That's not the case in git. > But of course other letters can be picked. I don't see an advantage in > it though. The advantage is that it's straightforward: co -> commit. > > 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. I'm on neither of those camps. > 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. This is what I think eventually should happen, but we are not there yet. If checkout were to disappear today, I wouldn't be able to do a lot of things. switch/restore are not ready yet. > 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. Why? Not all commands need an alias, only the most widely used. If switch/restore can be used for 99% of use cases (not the case today), then there's no need for checkout to have a default alias. Of course if somebody wants to keep using checkout instead of switch/restore, they can add an alias themselves. I'm on the camp of "let's see". -- Felipe Contreras
