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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2008, 23:27 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd4jukphm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808271717190.19923@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:

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> Yes, they are all a bunch of Nazi git fanatics, that Hitler himself would 
> have used the space version of git. He sent the Jews off to the 
> concentration camps because they insisted on using the dashes.
>
> There, we have a Hitler reference.
>
> CAN WE PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE!

Yeah, I second this.

The primary topic has already settled, and we will keep git-foo in libexec even for built-ins.

This offtopic tangent that shouldn't even have started from the beginning must die now. It outlived its usefulness even as a place for people to vent.

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