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Re: manpage name conflict

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 19, 2005, 16:47 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505190945440.2322@ppc970.osdl.org>
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On Thu, 19 May 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> 
> But what is going to be the name of the git package?  Let's please
> not make it "git", because that's taken by the GNU Interactive Tools.
> How about "git-core" or "git-plumbing" or "linus-is-a-git"?

"git-core" sounds good to me. I don't mind "linus-is-a-git" either, but I suspect it would end up confusing people if the git packages are installed with something that starts with "linus-"

		Linus
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