Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
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- Nov 26, 2007, 21:35 UTC
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes: > > > For the benefit of newcomers, I just wish the plumbing was kept a > > little bit out of sight. You know, porcelain in /usr/bin and plumbing > > in /usr/libexec or other such place. > > > > It's fine once you've learnt your workflows and know the 10 or 15 Git > > tools that you'll be using day-to-day; but for people who are just > > starting off this can be a little bit intimidating: > > > > $ git-<tab> > > Display all 146 possibilities? (y or n) > > I'd agree to that but I've always considered this an issue for distros. > We've supported an ability for them to specify a gitexecdir separate > from /usr/bin in our Makefile for almost two years.
Would probably be a good thing to start enforcing that by default. It's easier to follow such policies when they're coordinated from the project origin.
Nicolas