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Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

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Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date
Feb 7, 2018, 18:09 UTC
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > first, here are the executables under /usr/libexec/git-core/ that
> > are unreferenced by that web page, but that should be fine as
> > almost all of them would be considered underlying helpers or
> > utilities (except for things like git-subtree, but we're still
> > unclear on its status, right?):
>
> I don't think there's anything unclear about git subtree's status.
> It's in contrib/ within the source, so it's not part of the core git
> suite.  Some distributions (Fedora being one of them) ship a
> git-subtree package to provide it for users who want it.
  not true, "git-subtree" is part of fedora's lowest-level
"git-core" package.
rday
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