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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Humble request of 'git' developers
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:09:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <426AAB65.2060401@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050423200246.GA5448@taniwha.stupidest.org>

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:58:26PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 
>>Please stop filling up my /usr/local/bin :)
> 
> 
> why?
> 
> 
>>Just have one 'git' script, which looks in /usr/local/libexec/git
>>for further scripts and backends programs like write-tree and
>>diff-cache.
> 
> 
> how is that really any better?

Because

* flat namespaces grow cumbersome

* if everybody uses the 'git' command, which does all the internal 
execution, then it's just namespace pollution.

* using a multi-level namespace allows you to create commands like "rm" 
and "mv" by simply dropping that stuff into /usr/libexec/git, without 
having to worry about conflicting with rm(1) and mv(1).

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-23 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-23 19:58 Humble request of 'git' developers Jeff Garzik
2005-04-23 20:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-23 20:09   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-04-23 20:18     ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-24  5:47     ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2005-04-24 20:44 ` Petr Baudis

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