Re: [PATCH v2] git-rebase--merge: modernize "git-$cmd" to "git $cmd"

> Hi Elijah,
>
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>>   - Fixed up commit message (move below comment to below diffstat as
>>     originally intended)
>>
>> Long term I just want to make git-rebase--merge go away, so this patch
>> will eventually be obsoleted.  But since I'm waiting for multiple
>> topics to merge down before re-submitting that series, and since that
>> series has some open questions as well, I figure it's worth
>> (re-)submitting this simple fix in the mean time.
>
> I carry essentially the same patch in Git for Windows for a while now
> (more than a year, to be a little preciser):
>
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/42c6f1c943a
>
> (but it seems that I either missed one when I wrote that commit, or I
> missed when it was introduced)

> There are more dashed forms in Git's code base, still, see e.g.
>
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/4b3fc41b117
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/c47a29c373c
>
> I would *love* to see those go away.

> FWIW I had originally also "undashed" the use of `git-receive-pack`, but
> that breaks things, as the dashed form was unfortunately baked into the
> protocol (which is of course a design mistake even if Linus still denies
> it).
>
> It would go a long way to help with platforms and packaging methods where
> hardlinks are simply inconvenient. Because we could then finally get rid
> of (almost) all those hardlinked builtins.