From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:52:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Tool renames.
Message-ID: <7vr7bq4ssc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vr7bqahb8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
>> I noticed you also renamed git-ssh-{push,pull}.  These tools rely on 
>> having the same names on both sides, so you have introduced a major 
>> version skew problem.
>
> True.  It seems that both myself and Daniel did not think that
> would be a major problem when we were discussing the tool
> renames.
>
> As a workaround, you could always say GIT_SSH_PULL='blah' and
> GIT_SSH_PUSH='bah' when you run either side to name what will be
> run on the other end.

Come to think of it, I should be able to build git-ssh-push and
git-ssh-pull as fully backward compatible way to call the
counterpart with original name, instead of supplying just
symlinks the same way I do currently.  Let me work do that
before I do 0.99.7 this weekend.

> Now the interesting problem is if we should rename these
> environment variables ...

And the old and new binaries will be built separately anyway, I
could use GIT_SSH_FETCH and GIT_SSH_UPLOAD in the newname
binaries while keeping the old names in oldname binaries.  Ack?