Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
- Date
- Aug 26, 2008, 16:25 UTC
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:04:00PM +0200, Matthias Kestenholz wrote:
> Correct, but there is a benefit. Imagine a new user: > > git-<tab><tab> ... what? 140-something commands? I'll better start looking > for alternatives _right now_!
Actually, this is the only realistic argument I can remember at all. Are there any others? I couldn't come up with any - but I didn't do much history digging: others seem to be equally in dark, though.
(And I'm not saying this one is not important; it's apparently a significant "P.R." issue. But is just this _the_ official rationale?)
> Having a cluttered namespace is never a good thing. It means that it's > less obvious which commands you are supposed to use etc.
This is not much of a valid argument; you could install the same set of commands to /usr/bin that you are offering in the bash autocompletion. (With the catch that this might break peoples scripts in a subtler way than just removing all of them.)
-- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. -- Bill Gates