From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 03:24:20 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <7vmyqk563z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <87k5lnwvzd.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp> <878x22j1km.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp> <877ihmivav.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junichi Uekawa X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 03 04:25:51 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 1JLVUN-0006md-5j for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:25:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762394AbYBCDY4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 22:24:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754300AbYBCDY4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 22:24:56 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:50355 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753876AbYBCDY4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 22:24:56 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Feb 2008 03:24:54 -0000 Received: from host86-138-198-40.range86-138.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.138.198.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp023) with SMTP; 03 Feb 2008 04:24:54 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/0214dHVj0B1n168FS9kSZwsYLDV7Im/qGW4c1XS QsY/cWPELvxHmN X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <877ihmivav.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > Who said that: > > That woul be surprising. Git was not invented until early April 2005. > > At the moment I still wait (impatiently, because then my current > > contract ends) for April 2008. Please realize that you make it hard on _everybody else_ than you to follow who said what by egoistically deleting things that are important. Such as who said what. > > The important thing to realise is that time is such a wonderful > > dimension to be exposed to: not only do you live (experience things > > that you did not know before), but also other people live and learn. > > > > IOW even Linus realised that the git-xxx format is not _that_ good. > > Which is why -- as you should have realised if you did not subscribe 5 > > minutes ago -- we do not recommend git-xxx at all, but insist on "git > > xxx". > > I didn't realize that. > > Git doesn't give any warnings, and manpages give the dashed examples > only. > > Although I was subscribed to git-list from day 1, I must admit that > these days I don't read this list too closely (hence being caught in > surprise at this point). > > I assume things started with the following commit; but really, can we > please start with some deprecation notice before really moving it around > in user-visible location. That deprecation notice was the one you originally replied to. So your request has been granted before you even asked for it. But I suspect that you did not understand what I said: if you install a git script (that is not part of the "official" Git), it will probably be in the PATH, and you will not have a problem. Hth, Dscho