Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 3, 2008, 03:24 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802030321150.7372@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <877ihmivav.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp>

Hi,

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Junichi Uekawa wrote:

> Hi,
>

Who said that:

> > That woul be surprising.  Git was not invented until early April 2005.  
> > At the moment I still wait (impatiently, because then my current 
> > contract ends) for April 2008.

Please realize that you make it hard on _everybody else_ than you to follow who said what by egoistically deleting things that are important. Such as who said what.

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> > The important thing to realise is that time is such a wonderful 
> > dimension to be exposed to: not only do you live (experience things 
> > that you did not know before), but also other people live and learn.
> > 
> > IOW even Linus realised that the git-xxx format is not _that_ good.  
> > Which is why -- as you should have realised if you did not subscribe 5 
> > minutes ago -- we do not recommend git-xxx at all, but insist on "git 
> > xxx".
> 
> I didn't realize that.
> 
> Git doesn't give any warnings, and manpages give the dashed examples 
> only.
> 
> Although I was subscribed to git-list from day 1, I must admit that 
> these days I don't read this list too closely (hence being caught in 
> surprise at this point).
> 
> I assume things started with the following commit; but really, can we 
> please start with some deprecation notice before really moving it around 
> in user-visible location.

That deprecation notice was the one you originally replied to. So your request has been granted before you even asked for it.

But I suspect that you did not understand what I said: if you install a git script (that is not part of the "official" Git), it will probably be in the PATH, and you will not have a problem.

Hth, Dscho