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Re: git binary directory?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 6, 2005, 20:15 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> Right now, for a 1.0 release, I suspect that the "put the git binaries 
> somewhere else" just isn't worth it. It will break existing scripts that 
> use the binaries directly (we've already broken the kernel.org snapshot 
> scripts about a million times with just _renaming_ the binaries ;)

Although I _really_ wanted a 1.0 soonish, I personally feel that this change is better done now than later, if we are eventually going to do it anyway. "Never" _might_ be better than "now", but I suspect "later" or "post 1.0" is worse.

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