From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jidanni@jidanni.org Subject: Re: "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"? Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:22:17 +0800 Message-ID: <87ocyu4o6e.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <495940AD.2070602@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: bss@iguanasuicide.net, git@vger.kernel.org To: gitzilla@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 29 23:24:51 2008 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 1LHQWY-0006v8-4H for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:23:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754512AbYL2WWW (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:22:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754496AbYL2WWV (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:22:21 -0500 Received: from sd-green-bigip-202.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.202]:57563 "EHLO homiemail-a1.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754487AbYL2WWU (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:22:20 -0500 Received: from jidanni.org (122-127-33-187.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.33.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by homiemail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1B8119E07; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:22:19 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >> That shouldn't be a problem for much longer because "git-whatever" >> will stop working. From what I understand, "git whatever" has >> always been the preferred form, and the fact that "git-whatever" >> worked was just a implementation detail. I thought if A worked from the start, and now B also works, you all must have been moving to B, and so I made all my shell scripts use B. ALAS> This is a revisionist history. Check the history of the git command to ALAS> find out when it was created and then check the ML archives for ALAS> related discussions. All I know is we beginners just encounter both forms in the literature and won't know about looking into whatever histories... and assumed until this post that git-whatever was the new style! OK, now I know the truth.