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From: "Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com>
To: "Petr Baudis" <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Tommi Virtanen" <tv@eagain.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:20:38 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37fcd2780808251020j1ef51b38h7c6d6e8f050a92ce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080825170816.GQ10544@machine.or.cz>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Can we agree that direct calls of libexec stuff should never be part of
> the "official" interface (i.e. not workarounds for deprecated usage)?

Agreed. It looks somewhat strange to type the libexec path in /etc/passwd.

> Considering that calling the git-shell executable directly is the _only_
> sensible way of using this interface, it should follow that it has to be
> in /usr/bin, no matter if users type this command or not.

Perhaps, /usr/sbin would be a better place, as it is intended only for
system administration binaries.

Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-24 20:23 [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell" Tommi Virtanen
2008-08-24 20:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-24 20:38   ` Tommi Virtanen
2008-08-24 21:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-24 22:25       ` Tommi Virtanen
2008-08-25 10:37         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-25 11:44           ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-25 17:58             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-25 18:25               ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-08-25 20:08                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-25 20:28                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-25 20:51                     ` [PATCH 1/2] git wrapper: Make while loop more reader-friendly Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-25 20:52                       ` [PATCH 2/2] git wrapper: execute git-shell when argv[1] is '-c' Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-25 21:03                         ` Tommi Virtanen
2008-08-25 22:05                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-25 22:20                             ` Tommi Virtanen
2008-08-26  0:52                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-26  6:53                                 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-08-26 17:43                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-26  8:50                       ` [PATCH 1/2] git wrapper: Make while loop more reader-friendly Mike Ralphson
2008-08-25 17:08       ` [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell" Petr Baudis
2008-08-25 17:20         ` Dmitry Potapov [this message]
2008-08-25 17:26           ` Tommi Virtanen
2008-08-25 17:53             ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-08-25 18:17           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-25 20:26             ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-08-25 20:40             ` Mike Hommey
2008-10-28 11:11 ` Dmitry V. Levin

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