From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:13:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help.c: Pull cmd_version out of this file.
Message-ID: <AANLkTinGomS0OS-ZpOQun7E_KVRkL4A-w7MU1AG0bBAH@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101027164508.GB11069@burratino>

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, found it.[1]
>
> | At this point, adding the dashed-form "git-version" to the filesystem is
> | going backwards.  These files are only to help people who have old scripts
> | from pre 1.6.0 days with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH" with their
> | environment.
> |
> | We should instead try to not adding them (which would probably need tweak
> | in the command list generation code in "git help"), as nobody from pre
> | 1.6.0 era would have called "git-version" binary.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
Nope, sorry. I don't fully understand his explanation.

Also, Junio, thanks for the "I don't like
churning-for-the-sake-of-churning". This is very incentive.