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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 13:09:55 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1802071308250.9047@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180207172902.GL1427@zaya.teonanacatl.net>

On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > first, here are the executables under /usr/libexec/git-core/ that
> > are unreferenced by that web page, but that should be fine as
> > almost all of them would be considered underlying helpers or
> > utilities (except for things like git-subtree, but we're still
> > unclear on its status, right?):
>
> I don't think there's anything unclear about git subtree's status.
> It's in contrib/ within the source, so it's not part of the core git
> suite.  Some distributions (Fedora being one of them) ship a
> git-subtree package to provide it for users who want it.

  not true, "git-subtree" is part of fedora's lowest-level
"git-core" package.

rday

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-07 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-07 13:18 categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands Robert P. J. Day
2018-02-07 17:29 ` Todd Zullinger
2018-02-07 18:09   ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2018-02-07 18:42     ` Todd Zullinger
2018-02-07 20:03   ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-02-07 20:14     ` Jeff King
2018-02-07 20:38   ` Robert P. J. Day
2018-02-07 21:18     ` Todd Zullinger
2018-02-09 13:51       ` Robert P. J. Day

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