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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.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)
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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