Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 29, 2007, 15:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20071129150849.GA32296@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxyq2c9b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:56PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>  - Post v1.5.5, start cooking the change that does not install hardlinks
>    for built-in commands, aiming for inclusion in v1.6.0, by the end of
>    2008.

I am against this, unless it is configurable. I think the goal of reducing user-visible commands is fine, and moving things to $(libexecdir) is a good way of doing that.

However, I personally still think the 'git-foo' forms are valuable (because fingers have already been trained, and because non-bash-programmable completions understand them). And I don't mind putting $(libexecdir)/git-core in my PATH to retain this behavior; it's a one-time configuration tweak, and it helps new users with the overwhelming command set.

But I don't see a point to removing the links entirely. The annoyance factor for people who want git-* is much higher, and I don't see that it actually buys us any help for new users (who will no longer care after everything is hidden in $(libexecdir) anyway).

-Peff