From: Petr Baudis Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:19:52 GMT Subject: Re: git binary directory? Message-ID: <20051106221952.GP1431@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <7v7jbly1lh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:15:38PM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano told me that... > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > Right now, for a 1.0 release, I suspect that the "put the git binaries > > somewhere else" just isn't worth it. It will break existing scripts that > > use the binaries directly (we've already broken the kernel.org snapshot > > scripts about a million times with just _renaming_ the binaries ;) > > Although I _really_ wanted a 1.0 soonish, I personally feel that > this change is better done now than later, if we are eventually > going to do it anyway. "Never" _might_ be better than "now", > but I suspect "later" or "post 1.0" is worse. You are also going to break the porcelains (w/o manual user intervention), so I'm not happy about it but if you are doing it, do it now, please. :-) BTW, can I easily get the patch from the 'git' tool, so that I can extend $PATH appropriately during Cogito initialization? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.