categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

  (related to earlier thread but different enough that i'll start
fresh.)

  based on the collection of man page links here:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/

i took a look at how git 2.14.3 is laid out on my fedora 27 system,
particularly all of the executables under /usr/libexec/git-core/.
after manually cross-checking all of those executables against the
links on the docs page, here's what i learned.

  first, here are the executables under /usr/libexec/git-core/ that
are unreferenced by that web page, but that should be fine as almost
all of them would be considered underlying helpers or utilities
(except for things like git-subtree, but we're still unclear on its
status, right?):

  git-add--interactive
  git-bisect--helper
  git-credential-cache--daemon
  git-credential-libsecret
  git-credential-netrc
  git-difftool--helper
  git-fsck-objects
  git-gui--askpass
  git-init-db
  git-merge-octopus
  git-merge-ours
  git-merge-recursive
  git-merge-resolve
  git-merge-subtree
  git-mergetool--lib
  git-rebase--am
  git-rebase--helper
  git-rebase--interactive
  git-rebase--merge
  git-remote-ext
  git-remote-fd
  git-remote-ftp
  git-remote-ftps
  git-remote-http
  git-remote-https
  git-sh-i18n--envsubst
  git-stage
  git-submodule--helper
  git-subtree
  git-web--browse

on the other hand (and this is not so much a git issue as a fedora
packaging issue), there are a number of command links at that web page
that are supplied by distinct RPM packages rather than by the basic
fedora git package, so one would need to install the following
packages to get some of those commands on fedora:

  * gitk
  * git-cvs
  * git-svn
  * git-p4
  * git-email (provides git-send-email)

finally, from fedora, i am utterly unable to find a package that
provides git-archimport. pretty sure fedora used to have a "git-arch"
package but it's not there now.

rday

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