Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2008, 00:34 UTC
Message-ID: <48B4A10F.10601@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808260959000.3363@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> So live with it, and just add the 
> 
> 	PATH="$PATH:$(git --exec-path)"
> 
> as a "compatibility layer" to your own setup already. There is no 
> downside, and I think there _is_ a big upside, and no, it's not just about 
> "/usr/bin" being smaller.

Actually, this is acceptable since I set gitexecdir to $(bindir) in my make invocation.

*BUT* the recent discussion of not creating the hardlinks in git/core/libexec, introducing obnoxious warnings when using the dashed forms, and eventually having the git binary error when invoked as a dashed command is NOT acceptable. The discussion that happened in November and December 2006 was only about about moving the executables out of /usr/bin, not the completely disabling of the dashed forms for those users and distributions that want them.