From: Perry Wagle <wagle@cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:05:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Message-ID: <58E42279-D489-4356-9B4C-148A95F402E5@cs.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <48B71128.8040400@s5r6.in-berlin.de>


On Aug 28, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Stefan Richter wrote:

> Russell King wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:53:50AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> "-" -> " "?  Molehill.
>> "ls" -> "listfiles" - how would you feel about that change happening
>> behind your back?
>
> I would feel betrayed, then add another alias to .bashrc, then feel  
> deeply satisfied by my cunning betrayal of the betrayers, knowing  
> that only a true genius hacker could come up with a countermeasure  
> like that.

When I started with VMS (ahem) years ago, my buddies handed me eunice  
(a unix like environment) and a big bag of aliases to make my  
environment look like unix.  I did this for years and was happy.

But one day I lost my command shell init scripts, and was left to fend  
for myself with pure VMS commands.  I was completely helpless.  Moral:  
never again will I customize my programming environment to that extent.

Your solution is that sort of over-customization.  Sticking git's  
libexec in your path is too.  I'm still allergic.

-- Perry

PS.  </offtopic>