Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:14:14PM -0700, Perry Wagle wrote:
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> I did:
>
> pwagle@starscream:/usr/lib/cgi-bin$ ls -l
> total 352
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 2008-03-07 12:03 git-favicon.png
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208 2008-03-07 12:03 git-logo.png
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 167729 2008-03-07 12:03 gitweb.cgi
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7112 2008-03-07 12:03 gitweb.css
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 167932 2008-03-07 12:03 gitweb.perl
> pwagle@starscream:/usr/lib/cgi-bin$ grep git- * | wc -l
> 68
> pwagle@starscream:/usr/lib/cgi-bin$
1. Your numbers are doubled because gitweb.cgi is the built form of
gitweb.perl.
2. Look at the grep output. They are all in comments or messages.
Perhaps the messages should say "open git diff failed" instead of "open
git-diff failed". But the "git-foo" form has been kept as a
typographical convention because it makes more sense from a language
perspective (just as you would hyphenate some compound words, or an
adjective phrase). Perhaps that is a mistake, given the confusion.
-Peff
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>