Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"
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- walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
- Date
- Jun 30, 2007, 22:40 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi, > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, walt wrote: > >> Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> I realize that a lot of people use the "git-xyzzy" format, and we have >>> various historical reasons for it... >> One of the historical reasons was to allow users of gnu interactive >> tools to delete the git wrapper script, as outlined in 'INSTALL'.
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> All this would be less of a problem if Git consisted only of builtins, > since you could easily do "mv git gitscm" then. *sigh*
I just installed the gnu tools as a test (gentoo won't allow both gits to be installed at the same time, btw) and I found that each package installs one main 'git' along with a collection of other tools beginning with the prefix git.
One major difference is that our git names them git-* while the gnu tools names them git*, so only the main 'git's conflict. The gnu 'git' can also be renamed and it still works. 'man git' might still be a problem.