Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 13 2005 - 06:05:07 EST



* Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > Oh, and the other thing is:
> >
> > $ git pull
> >
> > GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.20 (armv4l-rmk-linux-gnu), 20:02:38 Mar 7 2001
> > GIT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
> > terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
> > Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
> > Copyright (C) 1993-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > Written by Tudor Hulubei and Andrei Pitis, Bucharest, Romania
> >
> > git: fatal error: `chdir' failed: permission denied.
> >
> > "git" already exists as a command from about 4 years ago. Can we have
> > less TLAs for commands please? That namespace is rather over-used and
> > collision-prone.
>
> I've already noticed GNU interactive tools (googling for git), but
> it's Linus' choice of name. Alternative suggestions welcomed. What
> about 'gt'? ;-)

'gt' or 'gi' both sound fine - 'gi' being a bit faster to type ;-).
(Even 'get' seems to be unused in the command namespace.)

Ingo
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