Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"
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Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
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- Jul 1, 2007, 13:47 UTC
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:37:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi, > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, walt wrote: > > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I realize that a lot of people use the "git-xyzzy" format, and we have > > > various historical reasons for it... > > > > One of the historical reasons was to allow users of gnu interactive > > tools to delete the git wrapper script, as outlined in 'INSTALL'. > > > > Seems unlikely that 'git' could still be deleted if your proposed > > changes are implemented. I recall that a few people cared a lot > > about this, and not too long ago. > > All this would be less of a problem if Git consisted only of builtins, > since you could easily do "mv git gitscm" then. *sigh*
That *would* be a problem for all porcelains - stgit, guilt, qgit, etc, all have to find git...
Best regards,
-- Yann