Martin <git@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 11/07/2021 14:23, Sergey Organov wrote: [...] >>>> Once that is regularized, we may as well consider allowing for inverse >>>> order of the first 2 arguments, by making >>>> git new remote >>>> git remote new >>>> the synonyms. >>> >>> Having even more ways to do one and the same thing.... >> Python was aiming to have one obvious way of doing every single thing... >> Did it succeed in that, I wonder? Maybe this aim is only good in theory? > > We are way away from having "one single way". But aiming for the > extreme opposite may not be any smarter. I don't like extremes either, but when there is a choice, there should be at last a stated preferred way of doing things. Guidelines, if not the rules. Otherwise we end up with an ugly mix of random preferences of different authors. > > While there is nothing wrong with going our own way in the end, maybe > we should look around before? > > How do other vcs do it? > > svn has at least status and log, which I would consider nouns, the way > they are used. And it has verbs too. > > hg as "branches", "files" which are nouns. And "log". > And it has verbs too. > > So there seems to be a pattern to using "mixed" verbs and nouns. There are so many things they did wrong... This could well be just another one. Thanks, -- Sergey Organov
