Re: git binary directory?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 6, 2005, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511060816390.3316@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vy84249re.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> My point (actually, my purist half's point) is that /usr/bin is
> that nice structure that keeps related things together --- the
> relatedness of them being "the end user would want to run them".

Yes. I wish there was some way around that.

Right now, for a 1.0 release, I suspect that the "put the git binaries somewhere else" just isn't worth it. It will break existing scripts that use the binaries directly (we've already broken the kernel.org snapshot scripts about a million times with just _renaming_ the binaries ;)

It would still be nice to not screw up peoples /usr/bin too badly. At least we have the nice property that our git programs sort together and can pretty much be wild-carded (not everybody uses package installers, and on one machine I had just done "make prefix=/usr install" and was happy to be able to basically remove it with "rm /usr/bin/git-*")

			Linus