Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... These days though it seems like an irrelevant point to make to > budding CLI scripters—you don’t have to warn against a style that > probably doesn’t even work on their git(1) installation. It is very true. It is still technically correct that you should prefer spelling "git cat-file" instead of "git-cat-file", as the latter may not work for you at all ;-).