From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command" Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:37:07 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: walt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 30 23:37:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I4kd1-0000xi-V9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:37:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752751AbXF3VhN (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:37:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752534AbXF3VhN (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:37:13 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48816 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752491AbXF3VhM (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:37:12 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2007 21:37:10 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO localhost) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 30 Jun 2007 23:37:10 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/RHhkoHYXRngkOmOfhoXBqVeZ4TuT09zPZHIjZDF 5kZAn1LdOrwm+T X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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