Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 6, 2005, 08:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwtlusi9t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509060057491.4316@evo.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> What's the upside?
>
> I can point to one downside: "git". That script right now is simple. If 
> you rewrite git-cvsimport-script from shell to perl, it looks the same to 
> git.

What I've been working on was to:

 * have git-cvsimport.perl in the source

 * install it as $(bindir)/git-cvsimport

 * simplify 'git' (whose source is of course in 'git.sh') to
   only do:

     cmd="$1"; shift; exec "git-$cmd" ${1+"$@"}

Naturally, the rewrite of git-cvsimport in shell or C would look the same to git.

One potential downside (for people who consider this a downside) is that you cannot easily run uninstalled, but you already cannot run tools/git-applymbox and git-cherry-pick uninstalled anyway, and I do not think it is such a big deal.