Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

["Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Al Viro <viro@hera.kernel.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:57:56AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>
>>>> The masses should forget about the git-foo form. If you push people
>>>> into using git-foo then you are not following git guidelines; you
>>>> would be pushing your own agenda.
>>>
>>> Egads...  For sarcasm it's far too heavy-handed and if that's for real...
>>> What's next, verbal diarrhea about Diluting the Message(tm)?
>>
>> Sorry, I guess I should have made it clearer.
>>
>> I haven't made my mind about git-foo vs "git foo", but a decision has
>> been made to deprecate git-foo, and allow it as an option for the
>> people that really want to use it, right?
>>
>> So there must have been a reason to deprecate git-foo, if people keep
>> using git-foo, and distributions keep allowing it, what's the point of
>> deprecation? It's ok if they keep that usage to themselves, like
>> 'alias ll = ls -l', but it's not something to assume everybody uses.
>>
>> So either we take back the decision and keep discussing if it's a good
>> idea to deprecate git-foo, or we go forward and discourage git-foo
>> completely.
>>
>> Anything in the middle would just confuse people more, and wouldn't
>> achieve the purpose of deprecation.
>>
>> If some script is relying on git-foo, and it has been deprecated, it
>> should be fixed.
>
> Actually, now I think I understand the point of David Woodhouse better.
>
> If the git-foo was supposed to be deprecated in 1.6.0, it should still
> work by default, but something to strongly discourage it like a
> warning should have been added.
>
> When it becomes truly obsolete, then people can rely on git exec-dir,
> which will be disabled by default.
>
> So is it deprecated or obsolete?

I quote Junio:
--8<---
We have deprecated the dashed form in early 2006, and announced that 1.6.0
will remove them from $PATH in the 1.5.4 release notes, with instructions
on how to update their scripts before 1.6.0 happens.  Many people knew
about this transition, but they didn't do anything about it.  Since 2005,
git has matured enough that majority of people are using it without
building one themselves, without a chance to even read Release Notes
--8<---

Ciao,
-- 
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/