From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <200509050054.j850sC3D023778@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Daniel Barkalow , Tim Ottinger , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 05 16:41:36 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECIAC-0008RH-5d for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:41:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751231AbVIEOlc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:41:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751246AbVIEOlc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:41:32 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:4507 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751231AbVIEOlc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:41:32 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j85EfFBo011366 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:41:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j85EfBId012924; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:41:13 -0700 To: Horst von Brand In-Reply-To: <200509050054.j850sC3D023778@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.45__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.115 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Horst von Brand wrote: > > I had the same opinion. The counter-argument people raised when > > this topic came up on the list was that it would help grepping > > in the source tree. > > Grepping for what? Grepping for strings. For example, when renaming a binary, the sane way to check that you fixed all users right now is grep old-binary-name *.c *.h *-scripts and you catch all users. In contrast, "grep *" will catch totally uninteresting patterns like object files etc. I personally find that very useful, and I don't see _any_ point to naming by what _kind_ of interpreter you use. Why would _anybody_ care whether something is written in perl vs shell? There's no reason to name things by the interpreter. Kubys