Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 27, 2007, 14:38 UTC
Message-ID: <200711271538.32457.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <474C259B.1000705@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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> The "git-cmd" form of writing commands was deemed obsolete round about
> the time git.sh was rewritten in C. There's just no reason for it
> anymore.
> 
> It's unfortunate that git-sh-setup makes it equally valid for scripts to
> use either form, as we can never get rid of the dashed form when so many
> scripts in the core distribution uses it.
> 
> Ah well.

I think it would be enough to have "git" and perhaps "git-sh-setup" in PATH, and the rest of git-cmd in EXEC_PATH != PATH.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

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