Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] Accept "mtn di" as "mtn diff"

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007, Richard Laager wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:21 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:52:27AM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > Can you demonstrate the existence of any user that actually wants "di"
> > to mean "disapprove"?
> >
> > > (Of course, one'd argue that checkout already has a shortened 'co'
> > > version, but that's not strictly a prefix of it...)
> >
> > See also "mv", "rm", "ci", "ls".  And we've gotten bug reports when
> > "up" accidentally stopped meaning "update", and I'm sure would
> > similarly if "sy" stopped meaning "sync".
>
> Given that nobody has spoken up about wanting di to mean disapprove, can
> this patch be accepted? If the answer is no, that's fine, but so far I
> haven't see a hard answer either way and don't want it lost in limbo.
>
> I've attached the patch again for convenience.

I personally would say "di" for "diff" is just fine as "diff" is used at
least a lot more often than "disapprove". And for instance Subversion
uses "di" as a shorthand for "diff", too.

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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