From: Hendrik Visage Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:09:47 GMT Subject: Re: git vs git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060130153715.GE30671@harddisk-recovery.com> On 1/30/06, Erik Mouw 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 :( > > 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