Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Now you can use "git less HEAD" to view the raw HEAD commit object. It > is really a soft alias (i.e. it can be overridden by any user-specified > alias) to "-p cat-file -p". I actually regret to have suggested "git less". Not only because you can always say "git show" instead, but because the error message you would get with usage string will _not_ say "git-less", but some other command's name if you say "git less nonsense". I on the other hand find the "view" alias moderately less problematic. As long as the future direction for the "view" alias is to allow it to notice user preference and launch something other than the default "gitk", iow, it is crystal clear that "git view" is just a short-hand for launching a history browser and the users are free to choose whichever viewer available, it won't feel inconsistent if underlying "gitk" barfed on malformed input using its own name. But then the users can do all that themselves. People who like qgit do not have to configure "git view" to launch qgit but instead run their favorite program directly. One thing the built-in alias is possibly bringing to the table is to give smaller number of commands people need to learn, without having to know "gitk", "qgit", "tig", "gitview", "instaweb", and possibly others, while at the same time enforcing a policy that the history viewer of choice is aliased to "git view" (not "git viewer" or "git visualize") to maintain a bit of consistency across users. By extension to this reasoning, I am not too keen on adding "update", "up", "checkin", "ci", nor "co". I do not think of any alternative backend implementations to these aliases, which means that there isn't even the advantage of giving a single front-end that lets the user do the same thing using a choice from multiple backends and keeps the interface simple for these names. - 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
