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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:50:12 +0300
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Cc: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
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To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt wrote (2008-08-30 09:24 -0400):

> But after getting use to the dash version, and having that go away,
> makes me need to retrain myself to do things another way. This feels
> more like losing a pet, and complaining about that. This is a much
> more painful change than having to live with hordes of git commands.

Don't worry, you didn't lose your pet. You have actually two pets now 
and it has become easier to play with both of them. Just shout

    PATH="$PATH:$(git --exec-path)"

and the older pet will come. However, it's preferred that you mostly 
show the new one to your neighbours.

:-)