Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 28, 2007, 08:36 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0711280036p33583824ge59af93bbe3f0a78@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8x4jb295.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Nov 28, 2007 8:13 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> In case somebody is thinking about 36e5e70e0f40 (Start deprecating
> "git-command" in favor of "git command"), that is a somewhat different
> issue.  What Linus suggested is not installing git-foo link for built-in
> commands _anywhere_ on the filesystem.  Not just "out of user's PATH".
> That is not deprecating dash form but removing the support for it.  We
> need to give ample time for users to adjust to such a change.

A little note on this one. I've been using git without builtin links for a while with my git-box port. There are still some builtin fixups needed. And because execv_git_cmd() always uses dash form, so it's impossible to use vanilla git without builtin links.

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Duy