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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:19:38 -0500 (EST)
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:52:01PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > > I am still against this step, for the reasons mentioned in the mails
> > > leading up to the one you just quoted. I am fine with "does not install
> > > hardlinks for builtin-commands on systems that don't support hardlinks"
> > > (and of course all such hardlinks are in $(libexecdir)/git-core at this
> > > point).
> > 
> > But only for porcelain, right?  You certainly don't need the dashed form 
> > of plumbing commands?
> 
> In principle, yes, though one man's porcelain is another man's plumbing,
> so determining the correct set is hard (and why bother if they are all
> hidden from mere mortals, anyway?).

That would be a good reason not to bother determining which set to 
preserve and remove them all then.

Sure you'll miss the dashed form for, say, one week? After that your 
fingers should be retrained.


Nicolas