From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:32:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: 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> <7vr68b8q9p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org, users@kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 28 17:29:13 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 1KYjQ1-00036S-WA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:28:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752518AbYH1P1N (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:27:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752754AbYH1P1N (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:27:13 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:41374 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752421AbYH1P1N (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:27:13 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Aug 2008 15:27:11 -0000 Received: from pacific.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO pacific.mpi-cbg.de) [141.5.10.38] by mail.gmx.net (mp052) with SMTP; 28 Aug 2008 17:27:11 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18baE5pOp0bZI+LadgeNhw9KsZ1OipMLBPqwcCR5q 6X8f8Tcg0Yc2ZZ X-X-Sender: schindelin@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.65 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > Read the subject line again, and notice that we are not talking about > > /usr/bin vs /usr/libexec/git-core; the request-for-discussion was about > > removing "git-add" and friends from /usr/libexec/git-core/, so that we do > > not have to even have these many hardlinks there. Except for Linus (and > > obviously myself who started the thread), I saw nobody expressed any > > opinion on it. > > Don't deprecate git-foo and leave them in $gitexecdir as things are now. > That's the best compromise IMHO. > > Those who want git-foo can have it via several and easy means. Those > who want 'git foo' have it by default which IMHO is pretty sane (the > other way around is less easy so 'git foo' being the default is the most > sensible alternative). > > Platforms where filesystem links are not available simply don't have to > support the git-foo form, period. I doubt users of such platforms will > care much. > > All the rest is only bikeshedding. Not wanting to be part of a _silent_ majority, I fully agree, loudly. Ciao, Dscho