From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:34:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f66eog$qe$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706301135300.1172@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I realize that a lot of people use the "git-xyzzy" format, and we have
> various historical reasons for it...
One of the historical reasons was to allow users of gnu interactive
tools to delete the git wrapper script, as outlined in 'INSTALL'.
Seems unlikely that 'git' could still be deleted if your proposed
changes are implemented. I recall that a few people cared a lot
about this, and not too long ago.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-30 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-30 18:49 Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command" Linus Torvalds
2007-06-30 19:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 19:43 ` Yann Dirson
2007-07-01 2:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 3:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-01 3:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 12:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-01 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-03 2:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-03 3:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-30 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-30 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-01 8:22 ` Jeff King
2007-07-01 13:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-01 21:11 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-30 20:34 ` walt [this message]
2007-06-30 21:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-30 22:40 ` walt
2007-07-01 13:47 ` Yann Dirson
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2007-07-01 0:45 linux
2007-07-01 1:48 ` eschvoca
2007-07-01 3:00 ` Theodore Tso
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