(controversial) Renaming "bzr" => "bz"

Nicholas Allen nick.allen at onlinehome.de
Sat Jun 9 11:52:07 BST 2007


Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Erik Bågfors [Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:23:58 +0200]:
> 
>> I think (but I can be wrong)  that new two letter commands are not
>> allowed into debian.  They have to be at least 3 characters.
> 
> This is simply not true.
> 
> P.S.: I have bzr aliased to 'b'. I'd leave it as bzr, and let people
> aliase it to their wish.
> 

I think that is the right approach. It's not as if 3 characters is a lot 
and you can always alias if it bothers you. Having 3 characters will 
reduce chance of conflict with other commands too and will get better 
search results with google etc.

I say leave it as it is too...

Nick



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