From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:19:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1219664940.9583.42.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, users@kernel.org To: David Woodhouse X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 25 20:16:03 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 1KXgbY-0004qh-2W for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:15:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751816AbYHYSOs (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:14:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751698AbYHYSOs (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:14:48 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:37517 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751241AbYHYSOr (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:14:47 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2008 18:14:45 -0000 Received: from pacific.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO [141.5.10.38]) [141.5.10.38] by mail.gmx.net (mp009) with SMTP; 25 Aug 2008 20:14:45 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19iiSd5OOtiYe0FfNo6Zl8plBlQI3Fd7ttU82zpJB XxVcJjbF6n4vdU X-X-Sender: schindelin@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de In-Reply-To: <1219664940.9583.42.camel@pmac.infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.61 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 20:33 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > There is one alternative, and one augmentation: > > > > (A) We do not do anything. > > > > (B) In addition to the main transition plan, outside git, prepare an > > optional "git-old-style" package that installs many "git-foo" > > wrappers in $PATH (i.e. /usr/bin). Each of them exec "git foo". > > People who like the dashed form can keep typing "git-foo", even > > though that will cost them two exec()s. > > (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. Umm. What exactly makes you feel you should ignore the discussions we had around the issues on the git and msysgit mailing list? Ciao, Dscho