From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: A Large Angry SCM Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:51:28 -0500 Message-ID: <474F5E90.9040505@gmail.com> References: <20071127160423.GA22807@laptop> <20071128000731.GD9174@efreet.light.src> <7v8x4jb295.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vfxyq2c9b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071129150849.GA32296@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20071129211409.GA16625@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20071129231444.GA9616@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7veje8twt2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff King , Johannes Schindelin , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , Jan Hudec , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 30 01:51:58 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 1Ixu6m-0006n3-Mc for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:51:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934271AbXK3Avg (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:51:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934257AbXK3Ave (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:51:34 -0500 Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.170.190]:57611 "EHLO rn-out-0102.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934241AbXK3Avc (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:51:32 -0500 Received: by rn-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i6so1805181rng for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:51:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rlJ9EPHMyN5PKuGGsnt85+Z7DJGV0BIZql/M813vNio=; b=ALQ2mC6juvSNqhAW0wG2BS+IfIVNiT35bcgyLuY1e4GmEAB492iH2UAaZyh8VWU1VAXz9b3ZzkpI3kpCs530dfpyocPmmwbmcb0ojYogQheSvOC9p601ehNrgkEuTmd1FRqu3IU+fFyY2fR21I0lWkYjqvCaRuz8tHd9Uy8ZL+M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=M/crpSPbcu5XnlbhWZYIsuuzN0FZjn69+YWdZQHiZkwrXllCZpn1iR6S62f8fCXr6JvExpG/VH4nKhf1mkwnqVkVSUNjQ8SWsumeJwpa3LKFDKRWrjjEbTcDloUGpfMJKPEKn6yBiZaGEwKA4ePUwX/gltW0YbYHQU4LSrh2qTg= Received: by 10.150.95.20 with SMTP id s20mr99927ybb.1196383891738; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:51:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? ( [66.177.19.100]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm7850166wrl.2007.11.29.16.51.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:51:31 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: <7veje8twt2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: [...] > Ok. So here is a revised roadmap that a panda brain (that is not so > well working today due to fever) came up. > > - v1.5.4 will ship with gitexecdir=$(bindir) in Makefile. But the > release notes for the version will warn users that: > > (1) using git-foo from the command line, and > > (2) using git-foo from your scripts without first prepending the > return value of "git --exec-path" to the PATH > > is now officially deprecated (it has been deprecated for a long time > since January 2006, v1.2.0~149) and upcoming v1.5.5 will ship with > the default configuration that does not install git-foo form in > user's PATH. > > If further will warn users that git-foo form will be removed in > v1.5.6 for many commands and it will be merely an accident if some of > them still work after that. > > - Post v1.5.4, start cooking gitexecdir=$(libexecdir)/git-core, aiming > for inclusion in v1.5.5, perhaps in Feb-Mar 2008 timeframe. This > will also affect the sample RPM spec and resulting RPM binary > packages I will place on k.org, and I'll ask Gerrit to do the same on > Debian side. The official binary packaging of individual distros are > not under my control, but if there is a handy list of people I can > send this notice to for other distros, that would help this process. > > - The release notes for v1.5.5 will warn users again that git-foo will > be removed in v1.5.6 for many commands and it will be merely an > accident if some of them still work. > > - Post v1.5.5, start cooking the change that does not install hardlinks > for built-in commands, aiming for inclusion in v1.5.6, in May-Jun > 2008 timeframe. Again, there needs to remain support in the Makefile to install the "dashed" versions of the commands for those that want it; and be able to set gitexecdir=$(binder) without editing the Makefile.