From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Mouw Subject: Re: git vs git Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:37:15 +0100 Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com Message-ID: <20060130153715.GE30671@harddisk-recovery.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: david@dgreaves.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 30 16:38:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3b62-0005Vv-U1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:37:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932338AbWA3Ph0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:37:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932343AbWA3Ph0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:37:26 -0500 Received: from dtp.xs4all.nl ([80.126.206.180]:38238 "HELO abra2.bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932340AbWA3PhT (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:37:19 -0500 Received: (qmail 17310 invoked by uid 501); 30 Jan 2006 16:37:15 +0100 To: Hendrik Visage 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 Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 05:14:28PM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote: > as few of you might know, there existed a very nice mc/norton commander > orientated tool called git > Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/git/ > Description: GNU Interactive Tools - increase speed and > efficiency of most daily task Yes, this has been discussed in the past. > This package have been in existence since many summers, but the name choice for > git - the stupid content tracker, seems to cause several weird problems when > you don't want/expect it :( GNU git development is dead. The last release is from March 13, 2000. > Could the name git perhaps be reconsideredto something like SCT? or GnuSCT? I don't think that will happen. The number of source control git users outnumbers the number of GNU git users, so consider it a lost case. > Just asking, as it do cause hassles when an environment is using git > and suddenly > need to load git to download newer drivers etc. and then git isn't > working because the wrong git is in the right place :( I think we found the only GNU git user in the world! ;-) A simple workaround would be to install git in a directory not in your path and put a shell script "sct" in your path that just calls git. Something like (untested): #! /bin/sh # sct: call git gitpath=/path/to/git export PATH=$gitpath:$PATH exec $gitpath/git $* Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands