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Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: Andi Kleen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:13

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

When you do

	ls<space><tab><tab>
Actually do ls --<tab><tab> and you can well be scared too. 
Perhaps it's not quite git class yet, but it's working on it.
I could imagine some Unix newbie be scared about that.

["Quick: mention the two characters not used as ls short options yet"]
and it says

	Display all 122 possibilities? (y or n)

(yeah, my home directory is a mess)
It's quite tidy in fact :)

% ls <tab><tab>
Display all 584 possibilities? (y or n)
120-something commands? etc etc".
I was assuming someone thinking about using git. At some point
they will do the git<space><tab><tab> thing and be scared away.

Ok maybe it's not the first action, but it's likely in the first 10 
minutes; more or less once they discover that git has sub commands.

Anyways the real solution to that is either having less commands
or hiding the internal ones better. I think both would be fine,
but once that is done and there's a slimmed down non scary list,
there's no reason to not put the remaining non internal ones back 
into $PATH isn't it?

-Andi
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