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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:09:52 +0900
From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org
To: Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>
Subject: Re: [GNU-arch-dev] [BUG] Rethinking add, delete and move commands
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:25:25 -0800 (PST), Tom Lord <lord@emf.net> wrote:
> I don't know what that implies unless it's that discussion about these
> commands might be making a mountain out of a molehill.

Well they seem to be the subject of endless bickering on this mailing list.

The presence of "move" and "delete" clearly causes confusion for
beginners, as they think that "mv" and "move" are synonyms (and "rm"
and "delete"); given that people generally want to use "mv" and "rm"
anyway, it seems quite silly to confuse them this way.

For advanced users and scripts, keep "move-id" and "delete-id" --
their names make it clear what they do, and avoid confusing beginners
-- and either remove "move" and "delete", or make them invisible
aliases with a warning message or something.

-Miles
-- 
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.