On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:35:55PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > David Lang: > > after so many years of software development (and with the policy of never > > having conflicting command names) what three letter combinations are still > > avilable? > > > Lots. > > > I'm assuming that the much smaller pool of two letter commands was long > > since exhausted, but if not what two letter commands are available? > > > Lots of them, I hope, but all of them obscure. > > We even have 25 one-letter commands that are free. My /usr/bin/ only has > 'w'. And if we run out, we could branch off into other alphabets; > unfortunately, not everybody has a quick way to type an ??. Or ??. Or ???. ;-)
"gt" seems free on my machine here. I haven't poke around at all the other ones that have slightly different sets of software, but searching on the Debian packages search engine: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fgt&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386 cogito in Debian seems to have taken it already for git, anyway. We can make the conversion easy for people by providing this shell script for a few weeks: #!/bin/sh echo "Don't get a git - use gt! gt $* -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
