On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:00:57AM +0000, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > > When I was idly googling around for traces of VCS and popularity, > noticed that Git is actually pretty popular. Googling for 'gitweb' > and 'viewcvs' and other comparative web-frontend variants floating in > the cyberspace I get these number of hits (in rough estimate) : > > 10000000 CVS > 1000000 SVN > 100000 Git > 10000 Mercurial / Darcs > 1000 Bzr > > This is crude, and I'm sure someone else will come up with a better > estimate. The point is, when there are so many users, people don't > read the lists or the changelog, but rely on manuals, and be surprised > with this change. http://www.google.com/trends?q=svn%2C+git%2C+mercurial%2C+bzr%2C+darcs&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 :) > I was wondering why I use the git-xxx format so much (in muscle, and > in scripts). And realized I have the following reasons: > > 1. That's the form documented in the manual pages (generated from asciidoc) > > 2. That's the name manual pages are in. > > 3. Linus said it's better (3 years ago), and I thought so too. > (Situation has changed, bash has better completion for 'git' > commands, so that's no longer valid) > > 4. There was a GNU Interactive Tools with the same name 'git', so it > was better to avoid confusion then. (This is still the case with > Debian, where the sysadmin can choose whether to make 'git' (GNU > Interactive Tools) the default, or our beloved git. > > 5. There are many documentations floating around. > > 6. I'm used to it. Yes, but your aliases are not usable through git-foo, only git foo is. So for consistency reasons, non dashed versions are better. And one could in the future have builtin commands without the corresponding git-foo and git-bar either. I'm thinking git-revert/git-cherry-pick that use _exactly_ the same code and code objects, hence having the two binary is somehow a waste of space. git-log variants are the same, and so on. I'm not saying this _will_ be done, TTBOMK it has not even been discussed, but that may happen at some point. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx OOO http://www.madism.org
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