Debian Bug report logs - #130015
cvs: short commands not consistent

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam Heath <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: cvs short commands not consisten

Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:57:38 -0600 (CST)

Package: cvs
Version: 1.10.7-7
Severity: wishlist

cvs di, cvs dif, cvs up, cvs upd are all valid.

However, cvs upda is not(nor cvs updat).

It'd be nice if all shorted forms of a command were accepted.  I find myself
very often hitting enter to soon, and not typing the last char of a command.

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From: Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Bug:#130015 Re: cvs short commands not consisten

Date: 27 Feb 2002 04:48:25 +0100

tags 130015 wontfix
thanks

From main.c:

       One thing that some systems do is to recognize any unique
       abbreviation, for example "annotat" "annota", etc., for
       "annotate".  The problem with this is that scripts and user
       habits will expect a certain abbreviation to be unique, and in
       a future release of CVS it may not be.  So it is better to
       accept only an explicit list of abbreviations and plan on
       supporting them in the future as well as now.

I agree with the author -- this might turn into a very mess.  I could
take it upstream and ask whether they still think this is valid
reasoning, but I don't want to diverge from upstream in this.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

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