From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hendrik Visage Subject: Re: git vs git Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:09:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20060130153715.GE30671@harddisk-recovery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: david@dgreaves.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 30 17:10:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3bbI-0005vh-Au for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:09:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932353AbWA3QJu (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:09:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932354AbWA3QJu (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:09:50 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.204]:34388 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932353AbWA3QJu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:09:50 -0500 Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h2so558680ugf for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:09:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PvaRjnU89uZ3oJyJTXSwwZKDekrdxNM01e6LX/xLPqyAbNrv47GO/M8XtCIksFh3+CRAi43DJShh02J9UgvonbdOVLHpijBAnpw5VrlUHrhsGUfZ2Js5aUtl/RGZb9I9NlxPgtuaicIZbTw/PR0MtLCfxK9Z/+Y3T1QKx3iX6BQ= Received: by 10.67.26.19 with SMTP id d19mr2754874ugj; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:09:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.250.17 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:09:47 -0800 (PST) To: Erik Mouw In-Reply-To: <20060130153715.GE30671@harddisk-recovery.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 1/30/06, Erik Mouw wrote: > > Yes, this has been discussed in the past. Hmm... liked to know the search terms to use :( > GNU git development is dead. The last release is from March 13, 2000. That doesn't mean it's not used extensively :) > > Could the name git perhaps be reconsideredto something like SCT? or GnuSCT? > > I don't think that will happen. The number of source control git users > outnumbers the number of GNU git users, so consider it a lost case. Okay, this is the point where the "number of git developers outnumber the number of GNU git developers" is more correct :( > > Just asking, as it do cause hassles when an environment is using git > > and suddenly > > need to load git to download newer drivers etc. and then git isn't > > working because the wrong git is in the right place :( > > I think we found the only GNU git user in the world! ;-) You might be surprised, it much nicer IMO than mc > A simple workaround would be to install git in a directory not in your > path and put a shell script "sct" in your path that just calls git. > Something like (untested): The problem is that the distro people are having troubles deciding how to make this work and us users are having to suffer this :( Actually it's at the point where I can't use/install cogito because I already have GNU git installed, and the name clashes... so I can't do disecting searches on my AMD64 with problems in a certain device driver since 2.6.13 :( -- Hendrik Visage