Why Nova Replaced Initialize with Configure
nova utility initialize made sense when Nova's guided setup had one obvious job: create the first nova.config.json file.
The command grew. It became the place to return whenever a project changed, whether you needed to add a workspace, revise repository settings, manage environment variables, or inspect GitHub environment status. Calling that ongoing work “initialization” stopped describing what the command actually did.
Nova 0.30.0 gives it a more accurate name: configure.