From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7vprnzt7d5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1219664940.9583.42.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <7vy72kek6y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080826145719.GB5046@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1f6632e50808260904t6bea0be5kc69342917e3db97@mail.gmail.com> <20080826162513.GR10544@machine.or.cz> <20080826164526.GM26610@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Petr Baudis , Kristian H??gsberg , Matthias Kestenholz , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 26 19:13:56 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 1KY279-0007WL-V2 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:13:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754403AbYHZRMw (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:12:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754329AbYHZRMw (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:12:52 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:53834 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753825AbYHZRMv (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:12:51 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m7QH5xsU020244 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:06:00 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m7QH5v1M017142; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:05:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080826164526.GM26610@one.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.928 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > It's not very convincing, because the bash completions script file for git > is installed by default[1] which completes both forms, so the new user will > experience instead: > > git.... what? 140-something commands? etc.etc. No. Your argument makes no sense. When you do ls and it says Display all 122 possibilities? (y or n) (yeah, my home directory is a mess) do you really think "What? 120-something commands? etc etc". Hell no, you don't. There's a big difference between having the space and not having it, and anybody who argues otherwise is being dishonest. Linus