From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:40:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"
Message-ID: <f66m4i$ih4$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706302236210.4438@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 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'.
...
> 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.