From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: A Large Angry SCM Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:34:23 -0400 Message-ID: <48B4A10F.10601@gmail.com> References: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1219664940.9583.42.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <7vy72kek6y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080826145719.GB5046@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Woodhouse , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_H=F8?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?gsberg?= , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , Junio C Hamano , users@kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 27 02:35:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KY90g-0005nP-2P for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:35:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752579AbYH0Aec (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:34:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752314AbYH0Aec (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:34:32 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.250]:64846 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752569AbYH0Aeb (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:34:31 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so358039and.103 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:34:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=k3zeXGbZHDEiP7mWqHzNwZIjyAY26XSduHxRx+Y5bag=; b=DAKYpej9a5pi08vtqFh/zUvMOXz94wgszAhDsFqpc2zLlaVqvTpONKczVeHbOr8YaT UTzYaxfN7HZMb3obazjHRCWW+AktljnF7hKOpkse8ZVvNLU2gW7lhUTR5zGQoX8WTlsD QENkQnpZwiIRR7F+XyMI5TSpUwInvu19PHLNg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ERbVo9iVsY0rGNRFb4/VTlWtd551EeCYy35MyeeA+aafB3LEWTQ0as2/jClCSyuU9I 2mo/sDHOQcFIx73xu+RuY2nuEY5CEL2P/93zV+2LyDgtnom9MqkjbN3fyLRmtd0U44Sx K48PbF9gQmHz3wbVtxf7+TP+uEgJlUXLv8Xlo= Received: by 10.100.249.10 with SMTP id w10mr6523080anh.139.1219797270525; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? ( [66.177.19.100]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d36sm10058122and.30.2008.08.26.17.34.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:34:29 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So live with it, and just add the > > PATH="$PATH:$(git --exec-path)" > > as a "compatibility layer" to your own setup already. There is no > downside, and I think there _is_ a big upside, and no, it's not just about > "/usr/bin" being smaller. Actually, this is acceptable since I set gitexecdir to $(bindir) in my make invocation. *BUT* the recent discussion of not creating the hardlinks in git/core/libexec, introducing obnoxious warnings when using the dashed forms, and eventually having the git binary error when invoked as a dashed command is NOT acceptable. The discussion that happened in November and December 2006 was only about about moving the executables out of /usr/bin, not the completely disabling of the dashed forms for those users and distributions that want them.