From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Teemu Likonen Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:42:54 +0300 Message-ID: <20080826174254.GA8441@mithlond.arda.local> References: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1219664940.9583.42.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <7vy72kek6y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080826145719.GB5046@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1f6632e50808260904t6bea0be5kc69342917e3db97@mail.gmail.com> <20080826162513.GR10544@machine.or.cz> <20080826170748.GB5318@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Petr Baudis , Matthias Kestenholz , David Woodhouse , Kristian =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F8gsberg?= , Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org, users@kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 26 19:45:08 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 1KY2bM-0000Aj-3u for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:45:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757379AbYHZRoB (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:44:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757239AbYHZRoA (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:44:00 -0400 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:54863 "EHLO jenni2.inet.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756686AbYHZRoA (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:44:00 -0400 Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by jenni2.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 489066C501327C94; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:43:03 +0300 Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KY2ZC-0002G1-Ks; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:42:54 +0300 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080826170748.GB5318@coredump.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote (2008-08-26 13:07 -0400): > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:25:13PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > git- ... what? 140-something commands? I'll better start > > > looking for alternatives _right now_! > > > > Actually, this is the only realistic argument I can remember at all. > > Are there any others? I couldn't come up with any - but I didn't do > > much history digging: others seem to be equally in dark, though. > > The three reasons I can recall are: Don't know about "original" reasons but filling users' ~/bin isn't nice either. I always install all of the self-built git under $HOME. Since "make install" (by default) used to fill ~/bin with those 140 git-* executables I already configured git to install itself to a custom directory. I had to use $GIT_EXEC_PATH and create some symlinks but with 1.6.0 I don't have to do this anymore. Me happy. Setting $GIT_EXEC_PATH wasn't a big deal and I can't see it being a big deal now, for some other people, to extend their $PATH to include every imaginable git-* executable in the system. BTW I'd also vote for reducing the number of commands printed with "git " bash-completion.