From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:06:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808281002270.1624@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <1219912327.7107.245.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Excellent. All we need to do is make sure the distributions all set
> > > $(gitexecdir) to /usr/bin when they upgrade to 1.6.0 -- and could you
> > > also fix it on master.kernel.org please?
> > 
> > Are you trying to irritate me even more?
> 
> Not at all; I'm sorry if that's the effect.
> 
> > Although I personally did not particularly like the "out of /usr/bin" move,
> > this was done by user request.  I now am hated for doing something I was
> > dragged into doing, not because I wanted the change, but only because many
> > others wanted it, and you are dreaming that another pointless change will
> > be made in the other direction?
> 
> I'm not asking you to make another change in upstream git. You've told
> us the workaround (gitexecdir=/usr/bin), and that workaround is no
> longer going to be deprecated, which is great. It's just up to us to
> ensure that we use that workaround when we build git for ourselves, and
> to ensure that our distributions also build packages using that
> workaround.

... effectively denying all those who asked for "git " from _easily_ 
getting it.  OTOH, you can _trivially_ add $(git --exec-path) to your 
$PATH and forget about it.


Nicolas