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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 24, 2008, 04:23 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808232120420.3363@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 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.

I actually suspect that (A) is fine.

I suggested removing the "git-xyzzy" hardlinks entirely, but that was just because I didn't think anybody wanted them.

But given that with the 1.6.0 model you can always just do

	PATH="PATH:$(git --exec-path)"

in your .bashrc or similar to get the git-xyzzy form, and given that clearly some people like using them, there's really no downside to keeping them.

I _would_ suggest against putting them in /usr/bin, even as a "compatibility plan". Just expose them to people who want them, who can really quite easily do the above PATH setting.

		Linus