Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 2, 2007, 17:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712021718460.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4752E3D0.6030802@obry.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Pascal Obry wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin a ?crit :
> > Okay, how many executables are there in your /usr/bin/?  Here there 
> > are 2973. Guess what.  I am not intimidated by that number.
> 
> Good, and look in /usr/bin, all those 2973 binary are all disconnected.
> 
> Here we are speaking about a tool as a whole : Git.

No, we are speaking about different commands, such as commit, fetch, push, etc.

I refuse to believe that you cannot see the equivalence.

> I've read many documentations before grabbing the system and I've not
> been impressed by the number of binaries in /usr/bin... Because I've
> almost never looked there.

Exactly my point.

> Most of the time I'm using "git <tab>" and the bash completion feature 
> is just right for me.

Bash completion is really something fine.

But even without, I do not see a problem: many cvs users used only three out of 32 commands (most CVS users I personally know/knew only called add, commit and update). You could even see all 32 commands when calling the clunky command line "cvs --help-commands". I am convinced we're already more user-friendly than that.

Ciao, Dscho