Re: git binary directory?

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:15:38PM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > Right now, for a 1.0 release, I suspect that the "put the git binaries 
> > somewhere else" just isn't worth it. It will break existing scripts that 
> > use the binaries directly (we've already broken the kernel.org snapshot 
> > scripts about a million times with just _renaming_ the binaries ;)
> 
> Although I _really_ wanted a 1.0 soonish, I personally feel that
> this change is better done now than later, if we are eventually
> going to do it anyway.  "Never" _might_ be better than "now",
> but I suspect "later" or "post 1.0" is worse.

You are also going to break the porcelains (w/o manual user
intervention), so I'm not happy about it but if you are doing it, do it
now, please. :-)

BTW, can I easily get the patch from the 'git' tool, so that I can
extend $PATH appropriately during Cogito initialization?

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