From: Robin H. Johnson Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:55:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvs*: Make building (and testing) of CVS interface scripts optionally selectable Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110107220147.GB9194@burratino> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:01:48PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > This explanation seems quite odd to me. Are you saying we can't rely > on the 'cvs' name being "taken" and should live in fear that someone > will implement an incompatible utility with the same name? Did that > actually happen? Not in the linked bug report, but it does explain a previous bug I had seen, where a user had a little script in /usr/local/bin that complained at him whenever he ran 'cvs', so he would learn to migrate away faster. > I would find it easier to believe I'm going to respin the patch with a new text, and one other improvement from Junio. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85