Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: > >> For new users the superfluous programs are a burden making it harder to >> learn how everything works. > > This should be a non-issue. We really should start deprecating > "git-<command>" in favour of "git <command>" for real. > > New users should not even be told that this is correct usage. > > My reason? We have plumbing, and we will always have plumbing, as > commands. A regular git user does not _want_ to see that. Without said > deprecation she _will_, however. If you can write "git-commit" and "git commit" interchangeably while you cannot say "git-cat-file" and are forced to say "git cat-file", I suspect that would lead to a great confusion and unhappy users. I wonder if making the distinction between plumbing and porcelain in the git(7) page even more cleaner would help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
