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

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Aug 25, 2008, 11:49 UTC
Message-ID: <1219664940.9583.42.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 20:33 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> There is one alternative, and one augmentation:
> 
>  (A) We do not do anything.
> 
>  (B) In addition to the main transition plan, outside git, prepare an
>      optional "git-old-style" package that installs many "git-foo"
>      wrappers in $PATH (i.e. /usr/bin).  Each of them exec "git foo".
>      People who like the dashed form can keep typing "git-foo", even
>      though that will cost them two exec()s.

  (C) Just don't do it. Leave the git-foo commands as they were. They
      weren't actually hurting anyone, and you don't actually _gain_
      anything by removing them. For those occasional nutters who
      _really_ care about the size of /usr/bin, give them the _option_
      of a 'make install' without installing the aliases.

(Oh look, my /usr/bin has 3806 files in it. And except when I accidentally point the $%#@&! GNOME file dialog box at it, I don't _care_.)

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation