From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:28:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] OSX ends with "install: git-init.1: No such file or directory"
Message-ID: <200701111728.l0BHSWu1031430@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <ae@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

[...]

> >> That's not good. Making git-init-db when it wants git-init.

> > Not good.  I am _very_ tempted to do this.
> > [Creates a stub manpage, saying git-init is a silly synonym for
> >  git-init-db]

> Perhaps, but "git init-db" does a lot more than just initialise the
> object database (such as setting default config-variables, installing
> template hooks...). "git init" is actually a more sensible name now
> adays.

Changing the name of a command is a delicate matter... sounds sensible, but
then make it git-init is new name in 1.5.0 (or right now) with a link to
the older one (and squeak about the name change when called as
git-init-db), and git-init-db is gone by 2.0.0
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