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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Nov 29, 2007, 23:30 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711291527090.8458@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071129231444.GA9616@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> 
> Yes, I am fine with the user having to go to extra lengths to use the
> dash forms (like adding $(libexecdir) to their path), which I think
> should address your consistency concern.

I agree. If we actually start moving the subcommands into a separate directory, I suspect scripts will be fixed up soon enough. Of course people *can* do it by just adding the path, but more likely, we'll just see people start doign "git xyz" instead of "git-xyz".

And from a consistency standpoint, that would be a *good* thing. There are many reasons why the git-xyz format *cannot* be the "consistent" form (ranging from the flags like --bare and -p to just aliases), so encouraging people to move to "git xyz" is just a good idea.

Yeah, yeah, the man-pages need the "git-xyz" form, but on the other hand, rather than "man git-xyz", you can just do "git help xyz" instead, and now you're consistently avoiding the dash again!

			Linus