From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:06:32 -0400 (EDT) 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> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Matthew Wilcox , git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org To: David Woodhouse X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 28 16:11:12 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 1KYiA4-0008Ad-7p for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:07:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752586AbYH1OGj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:06:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752705AbYH1OGj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:06:39 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:12140 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752304AbYH1OGj (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:06:39 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.131.194.97]) by VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0K6B004SIDUWXVC0@VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:06:33 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <1219912327.7107.245.camel@pmac.infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > David Woodhouse writes: > > > > > Excellent. All we need to do is make sure the distributions all set > > > $(gitexecdir) to /usr/bin when they upgrade to 1.6.0 -- and could you > > > also fix it on master.kernel.org please? > > > > Are you trying to irritate me even more? > > Not at all; I'm sorry if that's the effect. > > > Although I personally did not particularly like the "out of /usr/bin" move, > > this was done by user request. I now am hated for doing something I was > > dragged into doing, not because I wanted the change, but only because many > > others wanted it, and you are dreaming that another pointless change will > > be made in the other direction? > > I'm not asking you to make another change in upstream git. You've told > us the workaround (gitexecdir=/usr/bin), and that workaround is no > longer going to be deprecated, which is great. It's just up to us to > ensure that we use that workaround when we build git for ourselves, and > to ensure that our distributions also build packages using that > workaround. ... effectively denying all those who asked for "git " from _easily_ getting it. OTOH, you can _trivially_ add $(git --exec-path) to your $PATH and forget about it. Nicolas