From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:53:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] OSX ends with "install: git-init.1: No such file or directory"
Message-ID: <7vd55l15o1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45A60A0B.5000001@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> Perhaps, but "git init-db" does a lot more than just initialise the
> object database (such as setting default config-variables, installing
> template hooks...). "git init" is actually a more sensible name now
> adays.

Thanks.  That's the "excuse" I was hoping to come from somewhere ;-).

In general, I do not like any change, and I do not see much
point in renaming init-db to init.  Granted, other people may be
used to see "scm init", but that is not a strong enough reason
for _me_ to sell the name change to old-timers.

So let's do this instead.

 (1) Documentation/git-init.txt will have the full
     documentation, and we mention init and init-db are
     synonyms;

 (2) We refer people to gitlink:git-init[1] from
     Documentation/git-init-db.txt