From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>, Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>,
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:03:37 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0711261703050.9605@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3ausfzmh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > For the benefit of newcomers, I just wish the plumbing was kept a
> >> > little bit out of sight. You know, porcelain in /usr/bin and plumbing
> >> > in /usr/libexec or other such place.
> >> >
> >> > It's fine once you've learnt your workflows and know the 10 or 15 Git
> >> > tools that you'll be using day-to-day; but for people who are just
> >> > starting off this can be a little bit intimidating:
> >> >
> >> > $ git-<tab>
> >> > Display all 146 possibilities? (y or n)
> >>
> >> I'd agree to that but I've always considered this an issue for distros.
> >> We've supported an ability for them to specify a gitexecdir separate
> >> from /usr/bin in our Makefile for almost two years.
> >
> > Would probably be a good thing to start enforcing that by default. It's
> > easier to follow such policies when they're coordinated from the project
> > origin.
>
> Not really. The project origin ships the Makefile to install under
> $HOME, but I do not see any distros following that.
What about the default RPM spec file?
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-26 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-25 21:48 If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Jakub Narebski
2007-11-25 22:23 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-26 1:28 ` Steven Walter
2007-11-26 6:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-26 6:36 ` Adam Roben
2007-11-26 15:32 ` Carlos Rica
2007-11-26 16:40 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-11-26 16:46 ` Andy Parkins
2007-11-26 17:10 ` Benoit Sigoure
2007-11-26 18:56 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 19:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-26 19:34 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 19:50 ` Michael Poole
2007-11-26 20:09 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 20:31 ` Michael Poole
2007-11-26 20:48 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-26 20:11 ` Andy Parkins
2007-11-26 19:25 ` Marco Costalba
2007-11-27 1:20 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 1:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-27 1:58 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 11:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-27 23:59 ` [RFC] git-gui USer's Survey 2007 (was: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?) Jakub Narebski
2007-11-28 12:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-28 15:48 ` Jason Sewall
2007-11-28 23:25 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-28 23:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-29 6:57 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-29 12:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-30 17:50 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-30 18:25 ` Marco Costalba
2007-12-01 2:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-12-01 2:53 ` Marco Costalba
2007-11-28 13:18 ` [RFC] git-gui USer's Survey 2007 Sergei Organov
2007-11-27 8:45 ` If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Andy Parkins
2007-11-27 13:15 ` Marco Costalba
2007-11-27 23:56 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-27 17:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-04 11:00 ` Andy Parkins
2007-11-27 17:33 ` Jing Xue
2007-11-26 16:48 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-26 17:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-26 19:27 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 20:11 ` Benoit Sigoure
2007-11-26 20:36 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 19:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 19:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-26 19:57 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 20:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-26 21:00 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 21:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 20:45 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-26 21:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-26 21:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-26 22:03 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-11-27 1:03 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 3:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-27 5:10 ` Steven Grimm
2007-11-26 21:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-26 21:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 21:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-27 14:11 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-27 14:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-26 19:18 ` Dana How
2007-11-26 19:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 20:17 ` Dana How
2007-11-26 20:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 22:02 ` Dana How
2007-11-26 22:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 20:17 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-26 20:36 ` Dana How
2007-11-27 1:25 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 5:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-27 1:48 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 1:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-27 1:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 2:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-27 11:47 ` C# binding, was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-27 4:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-27 5:59 ` Dana How
2007-11-27 6:12 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
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