From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:24:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Message-ID: <7vmyiwd8ot.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080828230401.GC29609@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> In March 2008, the sample git-hooks and git-web used git<DASH> commands.  
>> That was the last I looked at git until Tuesday of this week.
>
> Yes, and some of the test scripts still have git-* in them. I think in
> that respect, the git community has been very bad about eating our own
> dog food.

Not at all.

For one thing, hooks do run under modified PATH, as already pointed out in
the earlier thread.

Test scripts are executed in a special environment whose GIT_EXEC_PATH
points at the top of the build tree, where all git-foo lives.

Before anybody greps in Documentation/ to make pointless noises about some
dashed-form git-foo in there when we do not talk about what the user types
but about a command as a concept in manual pages, they are left in dashed
form deliberately, partly to help manpage browsers crosslink across pages.

We could have described typographic convention,

Cf.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86940/focus=87008

but we ended up not doing so.