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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:13:54 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > 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.

By this I mean "git-" out of /usr/bin, before someone replies saying 
that "git " is always available.


Nicolas