From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Stephens Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:29:03 +0100 Message-ID: <80myizelcw.fsf@tiny.isode.net> References: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1219664940.9583.42.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <7vy72kek6y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080826145719.GB5046@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Woodhouse , Kristian =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F8gs?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?berg?= , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , Junio C Hamano , users@kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 26 19:30:25 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 1KY2Mv-00040B-3V for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:30:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756812AbYHZR3J (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:29:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756639AbYHZR3I (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:29:08 -0400 Received: from rufus.isode.com ([62.3.217.251]:55389 "EHLO rufus.isode.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756337AbYHZR3H (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:29:07 -0400 Received: from tiny.isode.net (shiny.isode.com [62.3.217.250]) by rufus.isode.com (smtp internal) via TCP with SMTP id ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:29:03 +0100 Received: by tiny.isode.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:29:03 +0100 X-Hashcash: 1:20:080826:torvalds@linux-foundation.org::Gpv9wBaM1O5By6yS:0000000000000000000000000000000001ED X-Hashcash: 1:20:080826:dwmw2@infradead.org::ckhVHfPrDDLYmx6o:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001yRa X-Hashcash: 1:20:080826:krh@redhat.com::dLUqfeiI2ulzs/Vo:00024ee X-Hashcash: 1:20:080826:peff@peff.net::50kvqJ4frkpgiG41:00000Ijt X-Hashcash: 1:20:080826:git@vger.kernel.org::1V7kk1sJJvKZZqwW:00000000000000000000000000000000000000000001XP X-Hashcash: 1:20:080826:johannes.schindelin@gmx.de::8RTELO+cYiTOvVP6:000000000000000000000000000000000005enT X-Hashcash: 1:20:080826:gitster@pobox.com::6Po/rhRXBcvGs5rr:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000035O0 X-Hashcash: 1:20:080826:users@kernel.org::sJ0TdiI/HmTUJ3LS:00Ts9 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue\, 26 Aug 2008 10\:03\:25 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: [...] > In case you wonder, the upside is: > > - new people don't even learn the mistakes > > - the people who _did_ complain are happier > > - this model allows a per-user-preference model even on the same machine > (ie even on something like master.kernel.org, everybody can choose > _individually_ whether they want to see 'git-xyzzy' or not!) And - it means git aliases have the same form as builtins - it means git on Windows has the same interface (Arguably the latter point ought to be "forces Unix users to use the same interface as on Windows", but the git-foo forms have been deprecated on all platforms for a while. Making Unix and Windows the same seems a worthwhile goal, though presumably it's irrelevant for linux kernel people.)