Re: do people use the 'git' command?

From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: Jun 11, 2005, 16:45 UTC
Message-ID: <87br6cn8p2.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7v7jh1xli5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

>>>>>> "RA" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> RA> ... it turns out in discussion on the Debian mailing lists
> RA> that people actually do use GIT.

> I thought the Debian way to resolve this kind of naming conflict
> was to rename _both_ commands involved.  Sorry if this was a
> misconception, but I think I read that somewhere in the
> developer's guide.

There are various ways in which you can deal with the problem, but then you end up making that distribution different possibly than any other and certainly different than the behavior people get when they build the package themselves. Then users ask questions here talking about running "cogito-git" or the like and developers go "I've never heard of that program," users try to use recipes off the net and the command isn't found, etc.

Users of a tool like git are in a better position to figure this sort of thing out, but it's still rather annoying and frustrating.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>