From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:47:18 GMT
Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0711261631170.9605@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:
>> 
>> > For the benefit of newcomers, I just wish the plumbing was kept a  
>> > little bit out of sight. You know, porcelain in /usr/bin and plumbing  
>> > in /usr/libexec or other such place.
>> >
>> > It's fine once you've learnt your workflows and know the 10 or 15 Git  
>> > tools that you'll be using day-to-day; but for people who are just  
>> > starting off this can be a little bit intimidating:
>> >
>> > $ git-<tab>
>> > Display all 146 possibilities? (y or n)
>> 
>> I'd agree to that but I've always considered this an issue for distros.
>> We've supported an ability for them to specify a gitexecdir separate
>> from /usr/bin in our Makefile for almost two years.
>
> Would probably be a good thing to start enforcing that by default. It's 
> easier to follow such policies when they're coordinated from the project 
> origin.

Not really.  The project origin ships the Makefile to install under
$HOME, but I do not see any distros following that.