From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:30:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20080828233022.GB10360@machine.or.cz> References: <7BC51BEC-E230-48C5-BD3E-2CECE3C7FC98@cs.indiana.edu> <20080828195211.GA3545@mithlond.arda.local> <4B9831F7-3CB8-49CB-A1DB-111481A271FE@cs.indiana.edu> <20080828212346.GA27867@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1C144B19-DA21-4CB4-B872-C1F154B031CF@cs.indiana.edu> <20080828215907.GE27867@coredump.intra.peff.net> <3DE083DB-ADFF-45E7-B3EB-A76985941271@cs.indiana.edu> <20080828230401.GC29609@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vmyiwd8ot.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , Perry Wagle , Teemu Likonen , Linus Torvalds , Kristian H??gsberg , Matthias Kestenholz , Steven Rostedt , Ulrich Windl , Andi Kleen , Johannes Schindelin , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 29 01:31:35 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 1KYqxe-0003lW-Hu for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:31:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755035AbYH1XaZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:30:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754906AbYH1XaZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:30:25 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:46865 "EHLO machine.or.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754892AbYH1XaZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:30:25 -0400 Received: by machine.or.cz (Postfix, from userid 2001) id 5019F3939B57; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:30:22 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vmyiwd8ot.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:24:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Before anybody greps in Documentation/ to make pointless noises about some > dashed-form git-foo in there when we do not talk about what the user types > but about a command as a concept in manual pages, they are left in dashed > form deliberately, partly to help manpage browsers crosslink across pages. What is the other part? And is it really worth the confusion? Are the gazillions cases of dashed-form git-foo in there where we DO talk about what the user types "pointless noises" too? (I have argued further in the other mail but somehow we seem to have gone off the list with that subthread, hmm.) Petr "Pasky" Baudis