From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95B71F404 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2018 13:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754047AbeBGNSP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2018 08:18:15 -0500 Received: from cpanel2.indieserve.net ([199.212.143.6]:52854 "EHLO cpanel2.indieserve.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753648AbeBGNSN (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2018 08:18:13 -0500 Received: from 69-196-158-250.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.158.250]:58378 helo=android-a172fe96dd584b41) by cpanel2.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ejPc4-0007Gc-Ev for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:18:12 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 08:18:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@android-a172fe96dd584b41 To: Git Mailing list Subject: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LFD 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel2.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel2.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel2.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org (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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================