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Discrepancy between CLI executable name based on install source

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Compare how the executable name is defined for Homebrew, downloaded binary releases, and go install. Determine the intended consistent name, then verify that each installation path exposes it and that the release or packaging checks pass.

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Description

When installing the CLI through homebrew, firefly is the name of the executable. However, ff is the name of the executable when downloading the binary release or using go install.

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Go
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Forks
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