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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up compatibility definitions.
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:17:58 -0800
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Dear diary, on Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:22:42PM CET, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
>> diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
>> new file mode 100644
>
> What about compat/util.h or something? Nicer, shorter, and takes
> advantage of this fancy hierarchical namespace "directories" invention.
> ;-)

While I would appreciate a better name, I am afraid that is not a
particularly good one.  It is not "compatibility utilities", but
compat things and util things mixed together, so it does not
belong to compat/ directory to begin with.  die() and friends
are not about compatibility at all.