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

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On 24/10/2007, at 5:59, Richard Laager wrote:

> I think it's probably muscle memory from CVS or something, but I keep
> typing "mtn di" expecting a diff. Attached is a patch to allow that.

I do not think this change is appropriate.  monotone already allows  
shortened names of commands, and in fact 'mtn di' would work if it  
didn't found multiple completions:

$ mtn di
mtn: misuse: 'di' is ambiguous; possible completions are:
mtn: misuse: informative diff
mtn: misuse: review disapprove
$

Maybe a better approach would be to allow the user to customize which  
completions he prefers for a given prefix based on a lua hook?

(Of course, one'd argue that checkout already has a shortened 'co'  
version, but that's not strictly a prefix of it...)

Cheers,

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <address@hidden>