Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [...]
>> Would people agree with a rough roadmap like this?
>>
>>  - v1.5.4 will ship with gitexecdir=$(bindir) in Makefile.  But the
>>    release notes for the version will warn users that:
>>
>>    (1) using git-foo from the command line, and
>>
>>    (2) using git-foo from your scripts without first prepending the
>>        return value of "git --exec-path" to the PATH
>>
>>    is now officially deprecated (it has been deprecated for a long time
>>    since January 2006, v1.2.0~149) and upcoming v1.5.5 will ship with
>>    the default configuration that does not install git-foo form in
>>    user's PATH.
>>
>>  - Post v1.5.4, start cooking gitexecdir=$(libexecdir)/git-core, aiming
>>    for inclusion in v1.5.5, perhaps in Mar-Feb 2008 timeframe.
>>
>>  - The release notes for v1.5.5 will warn users that git-foo will be
>>    removed in v1.6.0 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 v1.6.0, by the end of
>>    2008.
>
> So long as there remains the option in the Makefile to install the
> "dashed" commands in $(bindir) for those of us that wish it.

Surely.

Actually they already have that option of going dashless themselves, so
in a sense it is not strictly necessary to make a big deal out of this.