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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 5, 2005, 01:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwtlw9tzo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200509050054.j850sC3D023778@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>

Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> I had the same opinion.  The counter-argument people raised when
>> this topic came up on the list was that it would help grepping
>> in the source tree.
>
> Grepping for what?

I am only a messenger for their argument and, as I said, I did not particularly buy that argument because I myself do not find it too disturbing that a grep in my built tree says "Binary file libgit.a matches", especially I typically run grep in my Emacs buffer and C-x ` (next-error) does not get confused by such useless hits. But I can understand why it matters to people working in other environments.

> In any case, this would be for a very specialized,
> developer-only, occasional task. I don't see how that warrants
> a fractured tool namespace for /all/ users /all/ the time.

Yes, you convinced the convert again.

Now I have to find a poor unsuspecting volunteer to do the actual heavylifting after 0.99.6 happens ;-).