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Re: Humble request of 'git' developers

From
JGJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2005, 20:09 UTC
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:58:26PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 
>>Please stop filling up my /usr/local/bin :)
> 
> 
> why?
> 
> 
>>Just have one 'git' script, which looks in /usr/local/libexec/git
>>for further scripts and backends programs like write-tree and
>>diff-cache.
> 
> 
> how is that really any better?
Because
* flat namespaces grow cumbersome
* if everybody uses the 'git' command, which does all the internal 
execution, then it's just namespace pollution.
* using a multi-level namespace allows you to create commands like "rm" 
and "mv" by simply dropping that stuff into /usr/libexec/git, without 
having to worry about conflicting with rm(1) and mv(1).
	Jeff
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