On 2021-08-08 10:17:06, Brian Thompson wrote:
>> I personally find that "gh" is quite short name for a package that
>> will go into a general purpose software catalog like Debian repository. Would
>> you mind choosing something like "github-cli" as source and binary
>> package name and mentioning the sortcut "gh" in a package description?
>> So anyone could find the program by means of `apt-cache search`.
>> Acronyms gh and gn (which stands for Google's Generate Ninja) are
>> visually similar, and I'm afraid they are easily confused.
>>
>> What do you make of this proposal?
>
> I like that proposal and think it makes a lot of sense. `gh` does seem
> too short, and while easy to identify for current gh users, maybe it
> will be more difficult to find in apt for new users. Also, as you
> mentioned, a namespace clash in the future seems like an uncommon
> occurence.
It's not on the package name, but there's already a clash on the binary
name, which we should be mindful of:
anarcat@angela:~(main)$ apt-file search bin/gh | grep 'gh$'
gitsome: /usr/bin/gh
anarcat@angela:~(main)$ apt show gitsome | sed -n '/Description/,$p'
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Description: Supercharged Git/Shell Autocompleter with GitHub Integration
gitsome provides direct integration with GitHub and GitHub Enterprise in
a terminal.
It includes not only GitHub integrated commands that work with all
shells but also provides following functions.
.
- Git and GitHub Autocompleter With Interactive Help
- Fish-Style Auto-Suggestions
- General Autocompleter
- Python REPL
- Command History
- Customizable Highlighting
Since it's a git (and github, even!) related tool, we might even want to
Conflict with it directly...
a.
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