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Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

>> ... But the major problem is something else: it's that
>> doing PATH="$PATH:$(git --exec-path) is also deprecated, i.e. that workaround
>> is to go away in one of the next releases too.
>
> NO, IT IS NOT DEPRECATED.
>
> That was a plan. I think that plan got scuttled already. Stop whining!
>
> Can't you understand that people can change plans based on feedback?
>
> Effing whiners. 

I do not think "the plan got scuttled *already*" before you said so.  It
was the purpose for this thread to discuss it.

You effectively vetoed the plan with your statement just now, and that
settles it.  We can now officially declare the plan got scuttled and we
can all go back to our happy lives ;-).

Thanks.