The HCat wikidoc lists some of the differences between Hive and HCat CLIs here: Hive CLI<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HCatalog+CLI#HCatalogCLI-HiveCLI> .
-- Lefty On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Ashutosh Chauhan <hashut...@apache.org>wrote: > As far as I can see, all the functionality it provides can be provided by > hive cli with some configuration. There is functionality like -g and -p > option which it has, for which if there are users can be added to hive cli. > So, it seems we can get rid of HCatCli.java and its friends as well as > bin/hcat If dev folks think positively about this we can ask on user list > to see how users feel about it. > > Thanks, > Ashutosh >
