From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] README and ChangeLog files Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <48AC5972.80908@zytor.com> <20080820182636.GJ8318@parisc-linux.org> <48AC6839.7050605@zytor.com> <1219264114.7576.1121.camel@calx> <20080820210733.GA418@smurf.noris.de> <20080820223033.GD18947@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <57C9024A16AD2D4C97DC78E552063EA309E70713@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> <20080820232332.GE18947@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <48AD03BD.9000909@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Matthias Urlichs , "Luck, Tony" , "users@kernel.org" , Matt Mackall , Russell King , Git Mailing List To: "H. Peter Anvin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 21 17:39:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KWCE7-0004ES-OO for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:37:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752289AbYHUPgb (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:36:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752212AbYHUPga (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:36:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38110 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751977AbYHUPga (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:36:30 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m7LFZrS8016191 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:35:54 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m7LFZqYW011800; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:35:53 -0700 In-Reply-To: <48AD03BD.9000909@zytor.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.93 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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