From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Perry Wagle Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:05:42 -0700 Message-ID: <58E42279-D489-4356-9B4C-148A95F402E5@cs.indiana.edu> References: <20080826145719.GB5046@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080826180926.GA25711@isilmar.linta.de> <23DFA9EC-9523-4179-BA3C-ACBDB82953DF@cs.indiana.edu> <20080827230903.GB11005@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <48B5E90E.3000601@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20080828191956.GA7906@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <48B71128.8040400@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v928.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Russell King , Steven Rostedt , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_H=F8gsberg?= , Linus Torvalds , Dominik Brodowski , Jeff King , Johannes Schindelin , Junio C Hamano , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Richter X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 28 23:09:06 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 1KYojo-0005Ci-S4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:09:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754523AbYH1VH7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:07:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754244AbYH1VH6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:07:58 -0400 Received: from newman.cs.indiana.edu ([129.79.247.4]:54384 "EHLO newman.cs.indiana.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753563AbYH1VH6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:07:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.cs.indiana.edu (smtp.cs.indiana.edu [129.79.247.7]) by newman.cs.indiana.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/IUCS_2.87) with ESMTP id m7SL5qND004332; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:05:52 -0400 Received: from dhcp-2.metabiology.com (pool-96-253-170-5.ptldor.fios.verizon.net [96.253.170.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by rage.cs.indiana.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/IUCS_SMTP_Alternate_Port_1.4) with ESMTP id m7SL5hY9008998 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:05:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48B71128.8040400@s5r6.in-berlin.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Aug 28, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Stefan Richter wrote: > Russell King wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:53:50AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >>> "-" -> " "? Molehill. >> "ls" -> "listfiles" - how would you feel about that change happening >> behind your back? > > I would feel betrayed, then add another alias to .bashrc, then feel > deeply satisfied by my cunning betrayal of the betrayers, knowing > that only a true genius hacker could come up with a countermeasure > like that. When I started with VMS (ahem) years ago, my buddies handed me eunice (a unix like environment) and a big bag of aliases to make my environment look like unix. I did this for years and was happy. But one day I lost my command shell init scripts, and was left to fend for myself with pure VMS commands. I was completely helpless. Moral: never again will I customize my programming environment to that extent. Your solution is that sort of over-customization. Sticking git's libexec in your path is too. I'm still allergic. -- Perry PS.