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From: "Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:20:38 +0400
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
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> Can we agree that direct calls of libexec stuff should never be part of
> the "official" interface (i.e. not workarounds for deprecated usage)?

Agreed. It looks somewhat strange to type the libexec path in /etc/passwd.

> Considering that calling the git-shell executable directly is the _only_
> sensible way of using this interface, it should follow that it has to be
> in /usr/bin, no matter if users type this command or not.

Perhaps, /usr/sbin would be a better place, as it is intended only for
system administration binaries.

Dmitry