Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

> On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 20:33 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > There is one alternative, and one augmentation:
> > 
> >  (A) We do not do anything.
> > 
> >  (B) In addition to the main transition plan, outside git, prepare an
> >      optional "git-old-style" package that installs many "git-foo" 
> >      wrappers in $PATH (i.e. /usr/bin).  Each of them exec "git foo". 
> >      People who like the dashed form can keep typing "git-foo", even 
> >      though that will cost them two exec()s.
> 
>   (C) Just don't do it. Leave the git-foo commands as they were. They
>       weren't actually hurting anyone, and you don't actually _gain_
>       anything by removing them.