It would be nice to have "darcs cat" as a hidden alias to "darcs show
contents". This would help Mercurial users to find the equivalent of "hg
cat".

This is dead easy to do.  I still have some uncertainty about hidden
alias proliferation.  In any case, this may need to ride over a moderate
amount of grumpy-old-manism (see http://wiki.darcs.net/Ideas).  Fastest
way is to code this up and submit it for review.

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:57:45 -0700, Simon Michael wrote:
> I'm grumpy about proliferation of aliases, secret and otherwise.
> They increase the cost of learning, documenting, and supporting
> darcs. The once-simple darcs command space begins to resemble git's.
> So I don't think "it would help Mercurial users" is a strong enough
> argument.

Another point is that it's sort of an obscure command even for Mercurial
users (presumably).

Something like 'log' and 'status' would have a somewhat stronger case,
as they are very frequently used.

Let's err on the side of grumpiness

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