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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> This also implies that to support the old "git-log" and "git-diff" syntax, 
> the "git" wrapper now automatically looks at the name it was executed as, 
> and if it is "git-xxxx", it will assume that it is to internally do what 
> "git xxxx" would do.
>
> In other words, you can (once you implement an internal command) soft- or 
> hard-link that command to the "git" wrapper command, and it will do the 
> right thing, whether you use the "git xxxx" or the "git-xxxx" format.

I like this careful backward compatibility part.

> There's one other change: the search order for external programs is 
> modified slightly, so that the first entry remains GIT_EXEC_DIR, but the 
> second entry is the same directory as the git wrapper itself was executed 
> out of - if we can figure it out from argv[0], of course.

I am not sure about this part, though.