From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:13:02 -0800 Message-ID: <43737F9E.60703@zytor.com> References: <7vmzkc2a3e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43730E39.6030601@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel-3=40m.gmane.org-S1751163AbVKJRNc@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 10 18:16:16 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaFzw-0001yM-0M for glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:14:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751163AbVKJRNc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:13:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751172AbVKJRNc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:13:32 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:4565 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750948AbVKJRNb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:13:31 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAAHD3sM007591 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:13:04 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <43730E39.6030601@pobox.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Oh, and we will not be moving things out of /usr/bin/ during 1.0 >> timeframe. > > > :( bummer. I do like the elegance of having /usr/bin/git executing > stuff out of /usr/libexec/git. > > /usr/libexec/git also makes it IMO cleaner when integrating git plugins > from third parties (rpm -Uvh git-newfeature), because you don't have to > worry about the /usr/bin namespace. > It's nice in concept, but I think there are a lot of reasons why this is a bad idea: - "man" doesn't handle it. It would be another thing if "man" could be taught to understand commands like "man cvs checkout" or "man git fetch". - There is no general way to teach shells etc about it, for tab completion etc. - Makes it harder (but not impossible) to run git from a build directory without installing it first. In comparison, the issue of clutter in /usr/bin is actually a pretty small issue, especially with htree. Most vendors have gone back to putting everything into /usr/bin since all variants that involve splitting it up seem to be more of a loss than a gain. -hpa