visionmedia/watch — Issue #1: Program name conflicts with another which provides the same functionality
Author: gabrielg
Created: 2011-12-11 03:12:56+00:00
State: open

It's neat that this was built, but I'm concerned it has the exact same name (but not the same options) as another long-standing utility that does the same thing.

# Linux
gabriel@athena:~$ man watch | head -n6
WATCH(1) Linux User's Manual WATCH(1)

NAME
watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
gabriel@athena:~$ which watch
/usr/bin/watch

# [...]

# Mac OS X
gabriel@last:~$ which watch
gabriel@last:~$ brew search watch
cloud-watch sleepwatcher watch
gabriel@last:~$ brew info watch
watch 3.2.8
http://procps.sourceforge.net/
Not installed
http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/watch.rb

I can see this causing people to be confused when this `watch` doesn't take the same options as the other `watch` that has been around for a while.