From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Subject: Re: do people use the 'git' command? Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:59:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20050610185945.GB13102@vrfy.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 10 20:55:53 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DgofH-0003kr-5S for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:55:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261172AbVFJS7s (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:59:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261173AbVFJS7r (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:59:47 -0400 Received: from soundwarez.org ([217.160.171.123]:59860 "EHLO soundwarez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261172AbVFJS7q (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:59:46 -0400 Received: by soundwarez.org (Postfix, from userid 2702) id 646123F733; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:59:45 +0200 (CEST) To: Sebastian Kuzminsky Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:53:32PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > What good is the 'git' command? It's a shortcut to run the > "git-$FUNCTION-script" programs, but it doesnt do the "git-$FUNCTION" > programs. It just doesnt seem worth its inode, to me. And it doesnt seem > worth the pain to distribution maintainers (like me) to avoid the naming > conflict with GNU Interactive Tools' /usr/bin/git. Well, drop the GNU Interactive Tools instead. We've removed it from the SuSE packages and have a "real" git package now. :) Kay