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 21:03:40 -0500 Message-ID: <474F6F7C.5050409@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> <474F5E90.9040505@gmail.com> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , Jeff King , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , Jan Hudec , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 30 03:04:38 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 1IxvF6-0008AH-Ms for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:04:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933255AbXK3CDr (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761824AbXK3CDr (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:47 -0500 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.182]:44519 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761361AbXK3CDp (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:03:45 -0500 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1004932ele for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:03:44 -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=lKfPYNGcys/QTl4nqiTf1OH07D9g8BAxyvCw4AqiNE0=; b=anmT/NVEEHlHmFL7HDJnPvYtUP4SHzY0O/ZnezGpn4aH7v5W2t17ZjPbA3rqzgqA3g1V/PtKV6CkS9SVgEUf5QpQkahrcCzDQf1oWFaek6/o+tP6GmiP5G96NTSuNQrTbD2FqSMoBrdys0c8XE9WgeiIKlR+rLX3d5LeBp0rs2Y= 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=kqzMD/8a1+QkPd+fbhjTB8xNzUSZX2zWVU2g0tHLcXha8JWLf3UOVhhLUTf8HAQwshp6TRlYa5TiOLahvU2kfsRUboqPoHbR+QU6XMoHKosPo36kEjHlt3HL1fOpEY61bpNre2rN6q60jx9FSfRZoQSa15ITSPyYswXbQXUz/8Y= Received: by 10.70.111.15 with SMTP id j15mr101875wxc.1196388224124; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? ( [66.177.19.100]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i11sm8957201wxd.2007.11.29.18.03.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:03:43 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, A Large Angry SCM wrote: [...] >> 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. > > Umm. Why? If there is no compelling reason (and you named none, but > there were quite a few reasons against it), why should the Makefile > support the dash form after 1.5.6? Not all shells support customized command completion (check the archives); "bang" history (check the archives); etc.