Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> The current scripts that largely use "git-foo" do not have to be
> changed.  Your --no-alias and Linus's "git - foo" would be a
> "solution", but both require changes to the scripts

No. I didn't (and wouldn't) _remove_ the "git-xyzzy" thing.

I'm just saying that it should be considered a secondary thing, and we 
should have the long-term *option* to remove it.

And in order to do that, we should start removing our dependency on it 
earlier rather than later.

Your whole alias argument is bogus, since we don't _allow_ aliases to 
override the command (as you yourself did admit).

So changing the current scripts from using "git-xyzzy" to using "git 
xyzzy" changes nothing at all - except it gives people the _option_ to 
stop installing the git-* links if they don't want to.

With my script, you can actually do it and have a mostly working setup. 
Yeah, not installing the git-* links will actually break some things, but 
it won't break the really common stuff. 

As it is, we have to have the git-* links somewhere, and I don't see why 
you or others argue that that _requirement_ is somehow a better thing than 
not requiring it.

With my patch, it's a _choice_, rather than a straight-jacket.

		Linus