From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:56:27 +0200 Message-ID: <48B3EF6B.7070400@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1219664940.9583.42.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <48B3715D.7020608@gmail.com> <20080826091701.2e4e3ff4@hyperion.delvare> <48B3E517.2040409@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jean Delvare , David Woodhouse , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, users@kernel.org To: gitzilla@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 26 13:58:21 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 1KXxBj-0005Tm-Qx for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:58:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753777AbYHZL5P (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:57:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753520AbYHZL5P (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:57:15 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:47638 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752642AbYHZL5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:57:14 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Received: from [192.168.0.42] ([83.221.231.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id m7QBuXCa016809 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:56:34 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 In-Reply-To: <48B3E517.2040409@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:58:37 -0400, A Large Angry SCM wrote: >>> David Woodhouse wrote: >>>> (C) Just don't do it. Leave the git-foo commands as they were. They >>>> weren't actually hurting anyone, and you don't actually _gain_ >>>> anything by removing them. For those occasional nutters who >>>> _really_ care about the size of /usr/bin, give them the _option_ >>>> of a 'make install' without installing the aliases. >>> Acked-by: A Large Angry SCM [...] > Do some research; [...] ...the plan to move git-foo out of /usr/bin has been discussed and wrapped up quite a while ago (am I confident to say without being subscriber of git@vger.k'org myself). Instead of unhelpful complaints after the fact, you could try which of the many available alternatives work for you: Extended PATH, shell aliases, command line completion setup, links in ~/bin, or so many other possibilities of varying degree of sophistication. If none of these fix whatever issues you experience, there is surely opportunity to discuss details on the git list. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- =--- ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/