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: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:09:48 -0500 Message-ID: <20071130150948.GA22095@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20071129231444.GA9616@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7veje8twt2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071130003512.GB11683@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vzlwwsgkp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071130005852.GA12224@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20071130011748.GC11683@coredump.intra.peff.net> <474FB938.3040209@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , Johannes Schindelin , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , Jan Hudec , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 30 16:10:14 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 1Iy7VN-0001ak-DJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:10:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759679AbXK3PJy (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:09:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758650AbXK3PJx (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:09:53 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:4000 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751325AbXK3PJx (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:09:53 -0500 Received: (qmail 2835 invoked by uid 111); 30 Nov 2007 15:09:49 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:09:49 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:09:48 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474FB938.3040209@op5.se> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:18:16AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> The only reason I have heard to remove them entirely is that Windows >> doesn't properly support hardlinks, which I addressed in my other mails >> (and to which I have seen no rebuttal). >> > It would provide a ui inconsistency between platforms. Several people > pointed that out. It's decidedly a Bad Thing. Which, as I said, I have already addressed (and which Linus has also expanded upon in this thread). Since those hardlinks would be hidden from users who did not go to some trouble to find them, there will not be inconsistency problems. Scripts will have to either go to some effort to change their PATH, or simply use the correct form, and I expect them to do the latter. -Peff