From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:37:07 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706302236210.4438@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f66eog$qe$1@sea.gmane.org>
Hi,
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, walt wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I realize that a lot of people use the "git-xyzzy" format, and we have
> > various historical reasons for it...
>
> One of the historical reasons was to allow users of gnu interactive
> tools to delete the git wrapper script, as outlined in 'INSTALL'.
>
> Seems unlikely that 'git' could still be deleted if your proposed
> changes are implemented. I recall that a few people cared a lot
> about this, and not too long ago.
All this would be less of a problem if Git consisted only of builtins,
since you could easily do "mv git gitscm" then. *sigh*
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-30 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-30 18:49 Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command" Linus Torvalds
2007-06-30 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 19:43 ` Yann Dirson
2007-07-01 2:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 3:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-01 3:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 12:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-01 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-03 2:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-03 3:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-30 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 8:22 ` Jeff King
2007-07-01 13:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-01 21:11 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-30 20:34 ` walt
2007-06-30 21:37 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-06-30 22:40 ` walt
2007-07-01 13:47 ` Yann Dirson
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2007-07-01 0:45 linux
2007-07-01 1:48 ` eschvoca
2007-07-01 3:00 ` Theodore Tso
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