From: Petr Baudis Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:44:18 GMT Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Message-ID: <20080828204418.GY10360@machine.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <4B9831F7-3CB8-49CB-A1DB-111481A271FE@cs.indiana.edu> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:23:50PM -0700, Perry Wagle wrote: > > On Aug 28, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > >> I have come to understand that "git " has quite long time been more >> robust and portable way of writing scripts. They work in both >> configurations so I'd definitely suggest doing "s/git-/git /g" for every >> script. Of course in an interactive shell everyone can use whatever they >> prefer and works at the moment. > > Sure. Its an extra fork in git command intensive scripts (and git is racey > still maybe), but *shrug*. Do you have any details on the races in Git you know about? This does not mean an extra fork, only extra exec. In case of builtin commands (which is actually a large majority by now), not even that. > Even as of March 2008 (our last sync with git before the git scripting was > completed and we got on to other things), the sample scripts and gitweb > still used the git form. If this has been brewing for two years, > there shouldn't have been a git form in the scripts in the standard > source *anywhere* for those two years. I agree that this is a problem. Even now, the documentation is using git- at plenty of places. Patches are welcome, I'm sure. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. -- Bill Gates