From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com>
Subject: Re: do people use the 'git' command?
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:29:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cfc403205061100295ca06ed3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r7f9xsux.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
On 6/11/05, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > What is the justification for removing it?
>
> The conflict with the existing GIT package is painful for distributions.
> Packagers try hard to avoid any file conflicts between packages, since it
> means that both packages cannot be used at the same time, and it turns out
> in discussion on the Debian mailing lists that people actually do use GIT.
>
> Managing the conflict between two programs that do completely different
> things and are named the same thing is really annoying.
>
Ah, ok...sorry didn't realise there was a naming conflict.
How about renaming:
"git" to "g.t"
And then explaining the idiosyncratic name in git(7).
jon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-11 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-10 18:53 do people use the 'git' command? Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-06-10 18:59 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-11 17:14 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-06-10 19:11 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-11 3:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-11 5:26 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-06-11 6:34 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-11 6:36 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-11 6:36 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-11 7:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-11 7:20 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-11 7:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-11 8:48 ` Jon Seymour
2005-06-11 16:01 ` Tommy M. McGuire
2005-06-11 7:20 ` Russ Allbery
2005-06-11 7:29 ` Jon Seymour [this message]
2005-06-11 9:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-06-11 16:45 ` Russ Allbery
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