From: Petr Baudis Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:43:46 GMT Subject: Re: git binary directory? Message-ID: <20051107004346.GR1431@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <7virv5wc86.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:08:57AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano told me that... > Petr Baudis writes: > > > 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. :-) > > I thought Porcelains and people's script can just say 'git foo' > everywhere where it currently says 'git-foo', and it should work > before and after the change, and that is what I did to my > private scripts. But you are right, it is nicer if 'git-foo' > continued to work with a single patch to cg-Xlib or somewhere > central like that. I want to avoid extra fork()s and exec()s. They seem to routinely matter in orders of magnitude of speed in tight loops. Besides, I'm more used to the dash form. ;-) > > BTW, can I easily get the patch from the 'git' tool, so that I can > > extend $PATH appropriately during Cogito initialization? > > Do you mean 'git --show-git-libdir' or something like that? Yes. Well... you said you have the gitdir changes in your 'pu' branch, but http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=tree;h=pu;hb=pu doesn't appear to have the changes...? Is --show-git-libdir already implemented? -- 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.