Re: [PATCH v2] git-rebase--merge: modernize "git-$cmd" to "git $cmd"

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 12, 2018, 15:49 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1807121743040.75@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <20180627074600.32149-1-newren@gmail.com>

Hi Elijah,

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:

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> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes since v1:
>   - Fixed up commit message (move below comment to below diffstat as
>     originally intended)
> 
> Long term I just want to make git-rebase--merge go away, so this patch
> will eventually be obsoleted.  But since I'm waiting for multiple
> topics to merge down before re-submitting that series, and since that
> series has some open questions as well, I figure it's worth
> (re-)submitting this simple fix in the mean time.

I carry essentially the same patch in Git for Windows for a while now (more than a year, to be a little preciser):

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/42c6f1c943a

(but it seems that I either missed one when I wrote that commit, or I missed when it was introduced)

There are more dashed forms in Git's code base, still, see e.g.

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/4b3fc41b117 https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/c47a29c373c

I would *love* to see those go away.

FWIW I had originally also "undashed" the use of `git-receive-pack`, but that breaks things, as the dashed form was unfortunately baked into the protocol (which is of course a design mistake even if Linus still denies it).

It would go a long way to help with platforms and packaging methods where hardlinks are simply inconvenient. Because we could then finally get rid of (almost) all those hardlinked builtins.

Ciao, Dscho