Re: [kernel.org users] README and ChangeLog files

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

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Personally, I think this grand renaming was a huge step backwards; an attempt
> to be bug-compatible with other SCMs.  The only people I personally ever saw
> complaining about the situation in the first place were people who were
> fanbois of some other SCM.

Heh. It's true that the push came from people who were used to the "scm 
xyz" model, but it's also true that git basically made the situation in 
/usb/bin even worse. 

You _can_ actually have the "best of both worlds" (if you really do want 
to continue the "git-xyzzy" usage) by doing

	PATH=$PATH:$(git --exec-path)

although there has been noise about removing the built-in commands 
entirely even from there. I'm cc'ing the git mailing list just to bring 
the point up - I'm the one who actually championed removing the 
"unnecessary" hardlinks, and it seems that nto doing so was the right 
choice.

One of the reasons that the dashed format is being removed is a real 
technical one, though: git aliases. They never supported the dashed 
format, since they never were real executables (that's the whole point of 
an alias, after all).

So even with the above path thing, you'll still have to use the spacey 
version for any aliases you use.

			Linus