[pass] [PATCH 2/4] Alias "set" to "insert".

Matthieu Weber mweber at free.fr
Mon Sep 16 09:04:52 CEST 2013


On Mon 16.09.2013 at 08:50:40AM +0200, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On Sat Sep 14, 2013 at 07:18:31PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Chris Down <chris at chrisdown.name>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I find myself typing "set" rather than "insert" almost every
> > > single time.  I do not find "insert" to be intuitive since pass
> > > does not use a row-based database.
> > 
> > 
> > I might consider this, but it seems a bit superfluous. Does
> > anybody else on the list share this semantic point of view?
> 
> Insert has always felt wrong to me too. However rather than replace
> it with something else I would suggest removing it altogether.
> 
> I often ignore "insert" and use "edit" directly, which I think comes
> from thinking of pass in terms of "filesystem" rather than
> "database". Just like I always use the same vim command regard of
> whether my file exists or not.

AFAICT, "insert" is used in the migration scripts, so it should not be
removed.

Matthieu
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