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

[Richard Laager]

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.

Richard

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