From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:29:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Message-ID: <80myizelcw.fsf@tiny.isode.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808260959000.3363@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

[...]

> In case you wonder, the upside is:
>
>  - new people don't even learn the mistakes
>
>  - the people who _did_ complain are happier
>
>  - this model allows a per-user-preference model even on the same machine 
>    (ie even on something like master.kernel.org, everybody can choose 
>    _individually_ whether they want to see 'git-xyzzy' or not!)

And

  - it means git aliases have the same form as builtins

  - it means git on Windows has the same interface

(Arguably the latter point ought to be "forces Unix users to use the
same interface as on Windows", but the git-foo forms have been
deprecated on all platforms for a while.  Making Unix and Windows the
same seems a worthwhile goal, though presumably it's irrelevant for
linux kernel people.)