From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russ Allbery Subject: Re: do people use the 'git' command? Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:45:45 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <87br6cn8p2.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <7vy89h4m9r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <2cfc403205061023346c03a25b@mail.gmail.com> <87r7f9xsux.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> <7v7jh1xli5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 11 18:41:35 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dh936-0008AP-T7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:41:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261734AbVFKQpx (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:45:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261735AbVFKQpx (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:45:53 -0400 Received: from smtp3.Stanford.EDU ([171.67.16.138]:52637 "EHLO smtp3.Stanford.EDU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261734AbVFKQpr (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:45:47 -0400 Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.19.147]) by smtp3.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j5BGjjwj019353 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:45:46 -0700 Received: (qmail 23259 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Jun 2005 16:45:45 -0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <7v7jh1xli5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:58:58 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano writes: >>>>>> "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: > RA> ... it turns out in discussion on the Debian mailing lists > RA> that people actually do use GIT. > I thought the Debian way to resolve this kind of naming conflict > was to rename _both_ commands involved. Sorry if this was a > misconception, but I think I read that somewhere in the > developer's guide. There are various ways in which you can deal with the problem, but then you end up making that distribution different possibly than any other and certainly different than the behavior people get when they build the package themselves. Then users ask questions here talking about running "cogito-git" or the like and developers go "I've never heard of that program," users try to use recipes off the net and the command isn't found, etc. Users of a tool like git are in a better position to figure this sort of thing out, but it's still rather annoying and frustrating. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)