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 00:20:06 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <87r7f9xsux.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <7vy89h4m9r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <2cfc403205061023346c03a25b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 11 09:16:13 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dh0Di-0006uS-TV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:15:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261630AbVFKHUM (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:20:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261631AbVFKHUM (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:20:12 -0400 Received: from smtp3.Stanford.EDU ([171.67.16.138]:60861 "EHLO smtp3.Stanford.EDU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261630AbVFKHUI (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:20:08 -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 j5B7K6WL004133 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:20:07 -0700 Received: (qmail 28403 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Jun 2005 07:20:06 -0000 To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <2cfc403205061023346c03a25b@mail.gmail.com> (Jon Seymour's message of "Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:34:36 +1000") 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 Jon Seymour writes: > What is the justification for removing it? The conflict with the existing GIT package is painful for distributions. Packagers try hard to avoid any file conflicts between packages, since it means that both packages cannot be used at the same time, and it turns out in discussion on the Debian mailing lists that people actually do use GIT. Managing the conflict between two programs that do completely different things and are named the same thing is really annoying. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)