From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:14:19 -0600 Message-ID: <20080827191419.GC18340@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080826164526.GM26610@one.firstfloor.org> <48B5098E.748.A598B62@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , Kristian H??gsberg , Matthias Kestenholz , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org To: Ulrich Windl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 27 21:15:47 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 1KYQUa-0000Z4-9n for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:15:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756288AbYH0TOh (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:14:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756139AbYH0TOh (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:14:37 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:40106 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754911AbYH0TOg (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:14:36 -0400 Received: by mail.parisc-linux.org (Postfix, from userid 26919) id 8EDAF494005; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:14:19 -0600 (MDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48B5098E.748.A598B62@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> 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: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:00:17AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > In HP-UX many commands (or "subsystems") use /opt//{bin,sbin} to place > their binaries. PATH usually does not contain all of them. That's against Linux > philosophy I think, and I really don't like huge PATHs, but it may be one solution > to reduce the size of linear lists. It won't help against the git issue > directly, however. In HP-UX, the default shell has a line length limit that is smaller than the length of $PATH. Be in awe of enterprise scalability. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."