Excerpts from Ryan McElroy's message of 2017-03-22 11:51:16 +0000:
> 
> On 3/22/17 7:29 AM, Sean Farley wrote:
> > Yuya Nishihara <y...@tcha.org> writes:
> >
> >> On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:38:00 -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> >>> # HG changeset patch
> >>> # User Gregory Szorc <gregory.sz...@gmail.com>
> >>> # Date 1489378362 25200
> >>> #      Sun Mar 12 21:12:42 2017 -0700
> >>> # Node ID d30057d358076cbe7d632cd573095af97543f932
> >>> # Parent  1c3352d7eaf24533ad52d4b8a024211e9189fb0b
> >>> show: new extension for displaying various repository data
> >> The idea sounds nice to me. I just checked minor implementation details
> >> about formatter.
> > Just a quick reply (as I whittle down my backlog), but a lot of people
> > (including myself) have a 'show' alias (inspired by 'git show').
> >
> > That may or may not be a factor in this.
> 
> Greg called this out specifically in his excellent summary.
> 
> FB also has a "show" extension that replaced our "show" alias: 
> https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental/src/default/hgext3rd/show.py 
> 
> Therefore, I would also slightly prefer "view", but I admit I don't care 
> about hgk (even though we have it on at FB and it doesn't seem to work 
> at all...)

"show" is not a problem because it supports subcommands. It we make the
default subcommand to be "show commit" then there is no BC.

> 
> I'll respond to the original as well so I can respond inline to the code 
> and summary.
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