# Humble request of 'git' developers 6 messages from 2005-04-23 to 2005-04-24. Participants: Jeff Garzik, Chris Wedgwood, Sanjoy Mahajan, Petr Baudis. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/269 ## Jeff Garzik, 2005-04-23 19:58 Subject: Humble request of 'git' developers Message-ID: <426AA8E2.60403@pobox.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/426AA8E2.60403%40pobox.com ``` Please stop filling up my /usr/local/bin :) Just have one 'git' script, which looks in /usr/local/libexec/git for further scripts and backends programs like write-tree and diff-cache. Also, please don't assume that "." is in PATH. I think there is at least one invocation of commit-id with that assumption, in git-pasky-0.6.3. Jeff ``` ## Chris Wedgwood, 2005-04-23 20:02 Subject: Re: Humble request of 'git' developers Message-ID: <20050423200246.GA5448@taniwha.stupidest.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050423200246.GA5448%40taniwha.stupidest.org In-Reply-To: <426AA8E2.60403@pobox.com> ``` On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:58:26PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Please stop filling up my /usr/local/bin :) why? > Just have one 'git' script, which looks in /usr/local/libexec/git > for further scripts and backends programs like write-tree and > diff-cache. how is that really any better? > Also, please don't assume that "." is in PATH. I think there is at > least one invocation of commit-id with that assumption, in > git-pasky-0.6.3. That I'll buy. I don't know of anyone who places "." in PATH. ``` ## Jeff Garzik, 2005-04-23 20:09 Subject: Re: Humble request of 'git' developers Message-ID: <426AAB65.2060401@pobox.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/426AAB65.2060401%40pobox.com In-Reply-To: <20050423200246.GA5448@taniwha.stupidest.org> ``` Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:58:26PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>Please stop filling up my /usr/local/bin :) > > > why? > > >>Just have one 'git' script, which looks in /usr/local/libexec/git >>for further scripts and backends programs like write-tree and >>diff-cache. > > > how is that really any better? Because * flat namespaces grow cumbersome * if everybody uses the 'git' command, which does all the internal execution, then it's just namespace pollution. * using a multi-level namespace allows you to create commands like "rm" and "mv" by simply dropping that stuff into /usr/libexec/git, without having to worry about conflicting with rm(1) and mv(1). Jeff ``` ## Chris Wedgwood, 2005-04-23 20:18 Subject: Re: Humble request of 'git' developers Message-ID: <20050423201858.GB5448@taniwha.stupidest.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050423201858.GB5448%40taniwha.stupidest.org In-Reply-To: <426AAB65.2060401@pobox.com> ``` On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:09:09PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > * flat namespaces grow cumbersome agreed > * if everybody uses the 'git' command, which does all the internal > execution, then it's just namespace pollution. sure, but not everyone body is i agree everybody *should* and then it can go into /libexec or similar ``` ## Sanjoy Mahajan, 2005-04-24 05:47 Subject: Re: Humble request of 'git' developers Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/E1DPZxr-0000a3-00%40skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <426AAB65.2060401@pobox.com> ``` [Added David Wheeler to the CC given his (admirable) pushes for wide standards compliance.] >>>Just have one 'git' script, which looks in /usr/local/libexec/git > [or] /usr/libexec/git The FHS looks like it recommends a /usr/lib/git directory: /usr/lib : Libraries for programming and packages Purpose /usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts. Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib. If an application uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent data exclusively used by the application must be placed within that subdirectory. My Debian sarge system has one libexec-like directory, but it follows the FHS: $ locate '/usr*libexec*' /usr/lib/php4/libexec -Sanjoy ``` ## Petr Baudis, 2005-04-24 20:44 Subject: Re: Humble request of 'git' developers Message-ID: <20050424204408.GM1507@pasky.ji.cz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050424204408.GM1507%40pasky.ji.cz In-Reply-To: <426AA8E2.60403@pobox.com> ``` Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:58:26PM CEST, I got a letter where Jeff Garzik told me that... > Please stop filling up my /usr/local/bin :) > > Just have one 'git' script, which looks in /usr/local/libexec/git for > further scripts and backends programs like write-tree and diff-cache. Ad core git, yes, one of the reasons why I decided for the Cogito rename was to free the "git namesace" for the git programs. :-) > Also, please don't assume that "." is in PATH. I think there is at > least one invocation of commit-id with that assumption, in git-pasky-0.6.3. Yes, sorry, fixed and pushed out. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor ```