From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: The big git command renaming.. Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:58:29 -0700 Message-ID: <4272AE05.2070202@zytor.com> References: <20050429213540.GA1691@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 29 23:54:52 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRdQ6-00007X-Mp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:53:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263011AbVD2V6y (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:58:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263016AbVD2V6y (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:58:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:63420 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263011AbVD2V6v (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:58:51 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3TLwYTZ015806 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:58:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Dave Jones In-Reply-To: <20050429213540.GA1691@redhat.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Ok, I hate to do this, since my fingers have already gotten used to the > > old names, but we clearly can't continue to use command names like > > "update-cache" or "read-tree" that are totally non-git-specific. > > > > So I just pushed out a change that renames the commands to always have a > > "git-" prefix. In addition, I renamed "show-diff" to "diff-files", with > > together with the prefix means that it becomes "git-diff-files" when used. > > > > Since I end up using tab-completion for almost all my work, and since > > -within- the source directory there's no confusion, I didn't actually name > > the source files with any git- prefix. Quite the reverse: I removed the > > prefix from the two .c files that already had it (so git-mktag.c is now > > just "mktag.c"), and the general rule for building the executable from a C > > file is now > > > > git-%: %.c $(LIB_FILE) > > $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(filter %.c,$^) $(LIBS) > > > > > > this seemed to be a nice regular interface that means that binaries get > > installed with clear "git-" prefixes, but that I don't have to look at > > them when I edit the sources. > > Can you push out a new tarball to kernel.org too please, to kill > some potential confusion in documentation/scripts ? Oh yes, and can that tarball please be put in /pub/software/scm/git, and the associated git tree be moved to /pub/scm/git? -hpa