Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Read the subject line again, and notice that we are not talking about
> /usr/bin vs /usr/libexec/git-core; the request-for-discussion was about
> removing "git-add" and friends from /usr/libexec/git-core/, so that we do
> not have to even have these many hardlinks there.  Except for Linus (and
> obviously myself who started the thread), I saw nobody expressed any
> opinion on it.

Don't deprecate git-foo and leave them in $gitexecdir as things are now.
That's the best compromise IMHO.

Those who want git-foo can have it via several and easy means.  Those 
who want 'git foo' have it by default which IMHO is pretty sane (the 
other way around is less easy so 'git foo' being the default is the most 
sensible alternative).

Platforms where filesystem links are not available simply don't have to 
support the git-foo form, period.  I doubt users of such platforms will 
care much.

All the rest is only bikeshedding.


Nicolas