From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Wong Subject: git-svn name Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:04:25 -0800 Message-ID: <20060326030425.GA6306@hand.yhbt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Gerrit Pape , Chris Wright X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 26 05:04:56 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 1FNLYg-00028V-6h for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:04:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751450AbWCZDE0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:04:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751452AbWCZDE0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:04:26 -0500 Received: from hand.yhbt.net ([66.150.188.102]:18831 "EHLO hand.yhbt.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751450AbWCZDE0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:04:26 -0500 Received: by hand.yhbt.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 874612DC033; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:04:25 -0800 (PST) To: git Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I told somebody about my 'git-svn' program, and of course they asked where they could read about it. Since I don't have a website for it, I Googled for 'git-svn' in hopes that it'd lead me to contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt on gitweb. To my surprise, I found that git-svn was already packaged for several major distributions. Of course, it turns out that those binary packages are actually of git-svnimport. Oops, maybe I should've checked before naming my own creation git-svn :x Of course, I still think git-svn is a good name because it describes what the program does in as little text as possible. If anybody has any suggestions that don't require too much typing while keeping the name meaningful, feel free to suggest them. Would distro package maintainers also be willing to add my git-svn script to their git-svn binary packages when a new release of git is made, too? It's quite different from git-svnimport (see contrib/git-svn/git-svn.txt for details). -- Eric Wong