From: Perry Wagle <wagle@cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:05:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Message-ID: <BD6DEBB7-4D1C-43E9-B3D2-B46E42D9771D@cs.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <F86A1E37-8015-41B5-A462-F044B8D1C2B1@cs.indiana.edu>

Oh yeah, sorry.  I neglected to mention that my problem was having the  
git- forms in scripts all over an internal network, and having no  
amazingly easy way of fixing them.  I don't know who all copied them.


On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Perry Wagle wrote:

>
> On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:
>>
>>> Yes, they are all a bunch of Nazi git fanatics, that Hitler  
>>> himself would
>>> have used the space version of git. He sent the Jews off to the
>>> concentration camps because they insisted on using the dashes.
>>>
>>> There, we have a Hitler reference.
>>>
>>> CAN WE PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE!
>>
>> Yeah, I second this.
>>
>> The primary topic has already settled, and we will keep git-foo in  
>> libexec
>> even for built-ins.
>>
>> This offtopic tangent that shouldn't even have started from the  
>> beginning
>> must die now.  It outlived its usefulness even as a place for  
>> people to
>> vent.
>
> I suggested that git<DASH><TAB> used to give the same 143  
> completions that git<SPACE><TAB> would now.  This meant that making  
> any arguments that the number was off-putting to newbies did not  
> apply, since you had a same number (143)  either way.  Putting stuff  
> in libexec does not change the above observation in any fashion.
>
> A response to my observation was that "not everything will show up  
> in the latter completion".  I balked at that as it distorted the  
> truth.  If this distortion would actually take place then I have a  
> real complaint.  Not a tangent.
>
> But as long as git<DASH><TAB> does the *same* thing as  
> git<SPACE><TAB>, I really do not see why you had to go break my  
> scripts on a *minor* revision for what amounts to no reason as all.
>
> Shells *hash* the PATH, so there is no "linear list" issue, and you  
> have the *same* behavior for <TAB> completion both ways.
>
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