Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 30, 2007, 21:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706302236210.4438@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <f66eog$qe$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, walt wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I realize that a lot of people use the "git-xyzzy" format, and we have
> > various historical reasons for it...
> 
> One of the historical reasons was to allow users of gnu interactive
> tools to delete the git wrapper script, as outlined in 'INSTALL'.
> 
> Seems unlikely that 'git' could still be deleted if your proposed
> changes are implemented.  I recall that a few people cared a lot
> about this, and not too long ago.

All this would be less of a problem if Git consisted only of builtins, since you could easily do "mv git gitscm" then. *sigh*

Ciao, Dscho