Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] stop installing old libexec aliases like "git-init"

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 23, 2018, 11:19 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1811231219200.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <20181122160656.GB28192@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff,

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 01:48:53PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > So YMMV with git-<tool>s. My rule of thumb is: if I want to use this
> > myself only, I'll make it an alias. If I want to ship it (e.g. with Git
> > for Windows), I'll make it a git-<tool>.
> 
> I have a handful of personal git-* scripts: mostly ones that are big
> enough to be unwieldy as an alias. But then, $PATH management is pretty
> straightforward on my platforms, so it's easier to drop a script there
> than to point an alias to a non-git-* script.

Oh, my Git aliases pretty much *all* point to a single script that takes subcommands.

Ciao, Dscho