[RFC] make miss alias to missing?

[Wouter van Heyst]

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> > So I've been using ci for commit since the dawn of time, but it is okay
> > to break that, I should have been spelling it in full?

> Plugins and scripts shouldn't be written to use 'ci' for commit.
> It is arguable whether ci should equal commit in bzr. AFAIK, it is from
> cvs, being short for 'check-in'. I know that 'bzr get' behavior may be
> changing in the future (it currently is the same as 'bzr branch', but it
> may switch to being the same as 'bzr checkout', or possibly 'bzr branch
> --bound'.)
> 
> I don't know of any plans for 'ci'. I think as a convenience for users
> migrating for cvs we put it there, and we'll leave it in.
> But I do think aliases are generally not as guaranteed as the whole
> name. Which is why scripts should be written against the full name. (I
> wouldn't write a script using 'bzr st' for that example.)

Scripting is not what I'm worried about, I'l use bzrlib for that, what
my fingers are used to in regular use is the issue. I could deal with
change, but with much grumbling.

Wouter