From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:29:17 GMT
Subject: Re: do people use the 'git' command?
Message-ID: <2cfc403205061100295ca06ed3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87r7f9xsux.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>

On 6/11/05, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > What is the justification for removing it?
> 
> The conflict with the existing GIT package is painful for distributions.
> Packagers try hard to avoid any file conflicts between packages, since it
> means that both packages cannot be used at the same time, and it turns out
> in discussion on the Debian mailing lists that people actually do use GIT.
> 
> Managing the conflict between two programs that do completely different
> things and are named the same thing is really annoying.
> 

Ah, ok...sorry didn't realise there was a naming conflict.

How about renaming:
    "git" to "g.t"
 
And then explaining the idiosyncratic name in git(7).

jon.