Re: git vs git

From: Hendrik Visage <hvjunk@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 30, 2006, 16:09 UTC
Message-ID: <d93f04c70601300809v2f18221bxb4ddb495a6f2f47f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060130153715.GE30671@harddisk-recovery.com>

On 1/30/06, Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> wrote:

>
> Yes, this has been discussed in the past.

Hmm... liked to know the search terms to use :(

> GNU git development is dead. The last release is from March 13, 2000.

That doesn't mean it's not used extensively :)

> > Could the name git perhaps be reconsideredto something like SCT? or GnuSCT?
>
> I don't think that will happen. The number of source control git users
> outnumbers the number of GNU git users, so consider it a lost case.

Okay, this is the point where the "number of git developers outnumber the number of GNU git developers" is more correct :(

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> > Just asking, as it do cause hassles when an environment is using git
> > and suddenly
> > need to load git to download newer drivers etc. and then git isn't
> > working because the wrong git is in the right place :(
>
> I think we found the only GNU git user in the world! ;-)

You might be surprised, it much nicer IMO than mc

> A simple workaround would be to install git in a directory not in your
> path and put a shell script "sct" in your path that just calls git.
> Something like (untested):

The problem is that the distro people are having troubles deciding how to make this work and us users are having to suffer this :(

Actually it's at the point where I can't use/install cogito because I already have GNU git installed, and the name clashes... so I can't do disecting searches on my AMD64 with problems in a certain device driver since 2.6.13 :(

-- Hendrik Visage