From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:49 -0500 Message-ID: <20071129150849.GA32296@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20071127150229.GA14859@laptop> <20071127160423.GA22807@laptop> <20071128000731.GD9174@efreet.light.src> <7v8x4jb295.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vfxyq2c9b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , Jan Hudec , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 29 16:09:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ixl0u-0004Ar-6F for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:09:16 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756542AbXK2PIx (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755113AbXK2PIx (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:53 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:4970 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754708AbXK2PIw (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:52 -0500 Received: (qmail 19755 invoked by uid 111); 29 Nov 2007 15:08:50 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:50 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:49 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vfxyq2c9b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:56PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > - Post v1.5.5, start cooking the change that does not install hardlinks > for built-in commands, aiming for inclusion in v1.6.0, by the end of > 2008. I am against this, unless it is configurable. I think the goal of reducing user-visible commands is fine, and moving things to $(libexecdir) is a good way of doing that. However, I personally still think the 'git-foo' forms are valuable (because fingers have already been trained, and because non-bash-programmable completions understand them). And I don't mind putting $(libexecdir)/git-core in my PATH to retain this behavior; it's a one-time configuration tweak, and it helps new users with the overwhelming command set. But I don't see a point to removing the links entirely. The annoyance factor for people who want git-* is much higher, and I don't see that it actually buys us any help for new users (who will no longer care after everything is hidden in $(libexecdir) anyway). -Peff