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Re: Humble request of 'git' developers

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
Apr 24, 2005, 20:44 UTC
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<20050424204408.GM1507@pasky.ji.cz>
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<426AA8E2.60403@pobox.com>

Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:58:26PM CEST, I got a letter where Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> told me that...

> Please stop filling up my /usr/local/bin :)
> 
> Just have one 'git' script, which looks in /usr/local/libexec/git for 
> further scripts and backends programs like write-tree and diff-cache.

Ad core git, yes, one of the reasons why I decided for the Cogito rename was to free the "git namesace" for the git programs. :-)

> Also, please don't assume that "." is in PATH.  I think there is at 
> least one invocation of commit-id with that assumption, in git-pasky-0.6.3.
Yes, sorry, fixed and pushed out.
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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Previous: Sanjoy Mahajan
Message 6 of 6 in “Humble request of 'git' developers”
  1. Jeff GarzikApr 23, 2005
  2. Chris WedgwoodApr 23, 2005
  3. Jeff GarzikApr 23, 2005
  4. Chris WedgwoodApr 23, 2005
  5. Sanjoy MahajanApr 24, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisApr 24, 2005

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