Re: [PATCH 6/7] stage: add 'diff' subcommand

From: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] stage: add 'diff' subcommand
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:51:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <162871511371.7067.11584829113417456747.git@grubix.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YRQ11bYH5lV9D24D@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 2021-08-11 22:40:53:
> I don't really disagree with anything in your post, but I do think a
> pure-verb world would be tricky in some ways. Or at least verbose. We
> have "git branch --delete". But "git delete" seems a little too
> open-ended. The concept of that verb is meaningful only in the context
> or a particular noun. We could call it "git delete-branch", but that
> doesn't really seem to make the world a better place. :)

In fact I think it does, because it keeps the verb-object order and
avoids "verbs as options":

git rm-branch
git rm-tag
git rm-remote
git ls-branch
git ls-tag
git ls-remote (yeah, I know... maybe use ls-pluralform instead for all)
...

Maybe:
git branches aliased to "git ls-branch" etc. as convenience.

For sake of convenience, if we have "ls-pluralform" (aliased to "pluralform")
we could even alias "create-singularform" to "singularform". I mean, I
want use this git thing myself ;)

Michael