From: Perry Wagle <wagle@cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:14:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Message-ID: <CD2FC91F-D5BB-486D-B138-F521A493FE73@cs.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m3prnsrbdp.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

I did:

pwagle@starscream:/usr/lib/cgi-bin$ ls -l
total 352
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    164 2008-03-07 12:03 git-favicon.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    208 2008-03-07 12:03 git-logo.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 167729 2008-03-07 12:03 gitweb.cgi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7112 2008-03-07 12:03 gitweb.css
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 167932 2008-03-07 12:03 gitweb.perl
pwagle@starscream:/usr/lib/cgi-bin$ grep git- * | wc -l
68
pwagle@starscream:/usr/lib/cgi-bin$

On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Perry Wagle <wagle@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>
>> On Aug 28, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If the git-foo was supposed to be deprecated in 1.6.0
>>>
>>> Itw as deprecated over a _year_ ago.
>>
>> No, it wasn't.  As of March 2008, git<DASH> was still in the sample
>> hooks and in git-web. [...]
>
> If by "git-web" you mean "gitweb", the git web interface in Perl, this
> is simply not true.  From the commit 25691fb (gitweb: Use --git-dir
> parameter instead of setting $ENV{'GIT_DIR'}) _at least_ gitweb uses
> "git <comd>" and not "git-cmd" form.  And this commit was on 28 August
> 2006, so in March 2008 gitweb didn't use git<DASH> form...
>
> Check your facts, please...
>
> -- 
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
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