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: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:05:33 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20080826164526.GM26610@one.firstfloor.org> <48B5098E.748.A598B62@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> <20080827195019.GA9962@sigill.intra.peff.net> <38B725C0-40C3-496C-AAD4-4EA65E3085F5@cs.indiana.edu> <48B5BC5F.4070209@kernel.org> <7vd4jukphm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> 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: Junio C Hamano , Steven Rostedt , "H. Peter Anvin" , Kristian H??gsberg , Matthias Kestenholz , Ulrich Windl , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Jeff King , Andi Kleen , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org To: Perry Wagle X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 28 02:07:44 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 1KYV32-0000Q0-3K for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:07:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754456AbYH1AGb (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:06:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754419AbYH1AGb (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:06:31 -0400 Received: from newman.cs.indiana.edu ([129.79.247.4]:46692 "EHLO newman.cs.indiana.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752116AbYH1AGa (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:06:30 -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 m7S05dXs029377; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:05:40 -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 m7S05Ysn023324 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:05:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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: Oh yeah, sorry. I neglected to mention that my problem was having the git- forms in scripts all over an internal network, and having no amazingly easy way of fixing them. I don't know who all copied them. On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Perry Wagle wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Steven Rostedt writes: >> >>> Yes, they are all a bunch of Nazi git fanatics, that Hitler >>> himself would >>> have used the space version of git. He sent the Jews off to the >>> concentration camps because they insisted on using the dashes. >>> >>> There, we have a Hitler reference. >>> >>> CAN WE PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE! >> >> Yeah, I second this. >> >> The primary topic has already settled, and we will keep git-foo in >> libexec >> even for built-ins. >> >> This offtopic tangent that shouldn't even have started from the >> beginning >> must die now. It outlived its usefulness even as a place for >> people to >> vent. > > I suggested that git used to give the same 143 > completions that git would now. This meant that making > any arguments that the number was off-putting to newbies did not > apply, since you had a same number (143) either way. Putting stuff > in libexec does not change the above observation in any fashion. > > A response to my observation was that "not everything will show up > in the latter completion". I balked at that as it distorted the > truth. If this distortion would actually take place then I have a > real complaint. Not a tangent. > > But as long as git does the *same* thing as > git, I really do not see why you had to go break my > scripts on a *minor* revision for what amounts to no reason as all. > > Shells *hash* the PATH, so there is no "linear list" issue, and you > have the *same* behavior for completion both ways. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html