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Re: svn com?

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2005-02-02 22:48:27 CET

Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:43, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>> karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
>>> For the sake of being compatible with cvs except when there's a good
>>> reason, how about making svn com an abbreviation for commit? Obviously
>>> no big deal, but my fingers miss it.
>>
>> Developers: I'm tempted to just do it. It seems doubtful we'd ever
>> allocate 'com' to something *else*, given that it already means commit
>> in CVS.
>>
>> Any objections?
>
> I'd really rather that we didn't. We've already got 'ci', which is
> pretty short (I know it's not 'com', and I really do sympathize with
> Karl Berry's plight), but I fear that this will open the floodgates for
> incrementally including the gazillion other CVS shortcuts available.
> Here's the list of CVS commands that have one or more "aliases", and I
> really don't want to approach this level of insanity.
>
> CVS commands and their aliases:
>
> "add", "ad", "new"
> "admin", "adm", "rcs"
> "annotate", "ann"
> "checkout", "co", "get"
> "commit", "ci", "com"
> "diff", "di", "dif"
> "export", "exp", "ex"
> "history", "hi", "his"
> "import", "im", "imp"
> "log", "lo"
> "login", "logon", "lgn"
> "rannotate","rann", "ra"
> "rdiff", "patch", "pa"
> "release", "re", "rel"
> "remove", "rm", "delete"
> "rlog", "rl"
> "rtag", "rt", "rfreeze"
> "status", "st", "stat"
> "tag", "ta", "freeze"
> "update", "up", "upd"
> "version", "ve", "ver"
>
> -Fitz

Yuck! I didn't realize CVS was quite so ridiculously over-aliased!

Perhaps Karl Berry would be interested in the programmable bash completion?
(Assuming, of course, he uses bash).

Max.

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