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: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:37:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7vr68b8q9p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080827001705.GG23698@parisc-linux.org> <7v63pmkozh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1219907659.7107.230.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <7vtzd5fta0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <1219912327.7107.245.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <94a0d4530808280157p230d289dlf0c85cd517541801@mail.gmail.com> <20080828115408.GA30834@hera.kernel.org> <94a0d4530808280615i2befb89cm7d6153bfceb11b19@mail.gmail.com> <94a0d4530808280634k1c23fe10q8934875c83d4a2f5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Al Viro , Matthew Wilcox , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 28 18:41:10 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 1KYkXc-0000Vf-CX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:40:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753409AbYH1QjH (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:39:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753354AbYH1QjG (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:39:06 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33845 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753138AbYH1QjF (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:39:05 -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 m7SGbL47027073 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:37:22 -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 m7SGbKww002706; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:37:20 -0700 In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530808280634k1c23fe10q8934875c83d4a2f5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.927 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 Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > If the git-foo was supposed to be deprecated in 1.6.0 Itw as deprecated over a _year_ ago. > When it becomes truly obsolete, then people can rely on git exec-dir, > which will be disabled by default. It _is_ obsolete, but there's a trivial compatibility thing. Are you happy now? How hard is it to really understand? Linus