From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] README and ChangeLog files Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:32:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <48AC5972.80908@zytor.com> <20080820182636.GJ8318@parisc-linux.org> <48AC6839.7050605@zytor.com> <1219264114.7576.1121.camel@calx> <20080820210733.GA418@smurf.noris.de> <20080820223033.GD18947@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <57C9024A16AD2D4C97DC78E552063EA309E70713@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> <20080820232332.GE18947@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <48AD03BD.9000909@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 21 18:34:50 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 1KWD71-00048p-2w for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:34:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753201AbYHUQct (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:32:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754107AbYHUQct (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:32:49 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57464 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753751AbYHUQcs (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:32:48 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KWD5Z-0002G7-P7 for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:32:45 +0000 Received: from whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.44.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:32:45 +0000 Received: from michaeljgruber+gmane by whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:32:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080707) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds venit, vidit, dixit 21.08.2008 17:35: > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Personally, I think this grand renaming was a huge step backwards; an attempt >> to be bug-compatible with other SCMs. The only people I personally ever saw >> complaining about the situation in the first place were people who were >> fanbois of some other SCM. > > Heh. It's true that the push came from people who were used to the "scm > xyz" model, but it's also true that git basically made the situation in > /usb/bin even worse. > > You _can_ actually have the "best of both worlds" (if you really do want > to continue the "git-xyzzy" usage) by doing > > PATH=$PATH:$(git --exec-path) > > although there has been noise about removing the built-in commands > entirely even from there. I'm cc'ing the git mailing list just to bring > the point up - I'm the one who actually championed removing the > "unnecessary" hardlinks, and it seems that nto doing so was the right > choice. > > One of the reasons that the dashed format is being removed is a real > technical one, though: git aliases. They never supported the dashed > format, since they never were real executables (that's the whole point of > an alias, after all). > > So even with the above path thing, you'll still have to use the spacey > version for any aliases you use. Come to think of it: Maybe commands like "git pull" should, when spitting out warnings, refer to "git help pull" rather than "git-pull(1)" now. I do like it spacey, but the man issue is confusing. It continues with the links in the help/man pages, of course. Michael