From: Jan Hudec Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:18:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir Message-ID: <20071128081818.GA16825@efreet.light.src> In-Reply-To: <7v8x4jb295.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 17:13:58 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jan Hudec writes: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 16:18:01 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Nguyễn Thái Ngoc Duy wrote: > >> > >> > Both configure and make-only ways should work now > >> > >> I thought your plan was to put the non-porcelain into the libexecdir only? > > > > I had the impression that deprecating the dash notation for /all/ use was > > approved some time ago. Though I don't want to search through the list > > archives this late in the night to check it. > > [...] > > In case somebody is thinking about 36e5e70e0f40 (Start deprecating > "git-command" in favor of "git command"), that is a somewhat different > issue. What Linus suggested is not installing git-foo link for built-in > commands _anywhere_ on the filesystem. Not just "out of user's PATH". > That is not deprecating dash form but removing the support for it. We > need to give ample time for users to adjust to such a change. Yes, that is what I said I recall seeing. Installing out of user's PATH is a step towards not installing at all and the change suggests it has been already accepted as a general direction for future. Or not? -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec