From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:18:16 +0100 Message-ID: <474FB938.3040209@op5.se> References: <20071129211409.GA16625@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20071129231444.GA9616@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7veje8twt2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071130003512.GB11683@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vzlwwsgkp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071130005852.GA12224@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20071130011748.GC11683@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , Johannes Schindelin , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , Jan Hudec , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 30 08:18:42 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 1Iy093-0007Oz-8d for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:18:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757850AbXK3HSW (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:18:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756177AbXK3HSW (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:18:22 -0500 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:41205 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751325AbXK3HSV (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:18:21 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6D31F0807F; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:18:20 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tggKIrwoFkxB; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:18:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.20]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BA51F0805B; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:18:18 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) In-Reply-To: <20071130011748.GC11683@coredump.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:13:04PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >>> My point is that (2) is already implemented for every program (shell or >>> no) which understands filename completion, and there is a proposal for >>> taking it away. I would consider that, except I haven't see any claimed >>> advantages except that the hardlinks are awful under Windows. >> Weren't enough complaints about Git having waaaaaaaaaaay too many >> commands? Didn't those complaints come about often enough already? >> >> $ git-[tab] >> Display all 135 possibilities? (y or n) > > Go back and read the thread to which you are responding. I am _not_ > arguing against moving those commands to $(libexecdir) where no sane > user will ever see them. That change addresses the issue you are talking > about. > > I _am_ arguing against removing them entirely, for those of us who want > to go to the trouble of enabling this (by putting a non-standard entry > into our PATH). Because the issue you are talking about will already > have been dealt with, it is no longer a compelling reason to remove the > hardlinks entirely. > > The only reason I have heard to remove them entirely is that Windows > doesn't properly support hardlinks, which I addressed in my other mails > (and to which I have seen no rebuttal). > It would provide a ui inconsistency between platforms. Several people pointed that out. It's decidedly a Bad Thing. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231