From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:17:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808252015080.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <37fcd2780808251020j1ef51b38h7c6d6e8f050a92ce@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Can we agree that direct calls of libexec stuff should never be part 
> > of the "official" interface (i.e. not workarounds for deprecated 
> > usage)?
> 
> Agreed. It looks somewhat strange to type the libexec path in 
> /etc/passwd.

FWIW I do not agree.  IMNHO libexec/ is just a way to organize executable 
parts of any software package that are usually not called from the command 
line.  And a login shell qualifies for that.

> > Considering that calling the git-shell executable directly is the 
> > _only_ sensible way of using this interface, it should follow that it 
> > has to be in /usr/bin, no matter if users type this command or not.
> 
> Perhaps, /usr/sbin would be a better place, as it is intended only for 
> system administration binaries.

Does it not strike you as odd, then, that "sh" -- by far the most common 
login shell -- does not live in /usr/sbin/?

Ciao,
Dscho