Re: VCS (was: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn)

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 16:54:54 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov:
> > It sort of automatically creates shorter aliases for you - saves
> > keystrokes.
> 
> Aha, so it does so automatically.  I somehow thought you have to
> define aliases by yourself.

You can, but you don't have to. 
 
> > And when you use an ambigous abbreviation, it tells you the ones from
> > which would fit. For example for me, "hg ch" says the following:
> > $ LANGUAGE=en hg ch
> > hg: command 'ch' is ambiguous:
> >     checkout chist churn
> 
> It's very much like bashcomp with git support enabled :-)

Jupp - and since bashcomp also completes file arguments in hg, it's become 
even nicer :) 
(but I assume it does the same for git - anything else would be strange :) ). 
 
> I have a course of German at the University now, so I'll soon become a
> true Hurd man :-) (since, apparently, a lot of Hurd people speak
> German)

*gg* 

This might be connected to things like my professor telling us in Informatics 
3 (OS and Networking) to gather information about the difference between the 
Hurd and Linux. 

>  I've already manage to plough my way towards understanding
> the snippet about ``Zensur ist schön'' you add to your mails and I'll
> hope I'll soon be able to read your stories in German :-)

I hope you'll enjoy them (though they are mostly about science fiction and 
fantasy and not about technology - I wrote my free software stuff mostly in 
english, since I know that almost all free software contributors communicate 
in english). 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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- Arne (http://draketo.de)
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