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From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does git belong in root's $PATH?
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:22:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dpppg4$qkd$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C05F4C.8050908@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> /usr used to be what is now called /home.  What you're describing above
> is the current usage.

History lessons are valuable for us youngsters ;o)  Can you give us a
brief description of what motivated such a change?  (Just as important,
of course, is whether the original motives have changed or disappeared.)

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-08  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-07 17:21 Does git belong in root's $PATH? walt
2006-01-07 18:03 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-07 20:40   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-08  0:37     ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-08  0:39       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-08  1:22         ` walt [this message]
2006-01-08  3:00           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-07 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-07 20:49   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-07 23:01   ` Sam Ravnborg

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