From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:34:00 +0200 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> <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: David Woodhouse , Kristian =?ISO-8859-15?Q?H=F8gs?= =?ISO-8859-15?Q?berg?= , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 26 19:35:18 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 1KY2Rm-0005Fm-4o for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:35:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757200AbYHZReI (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:34:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757191AbYHZReH (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:34:07 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:44241 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756581AbYHZReG (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:34:06 -0400 Received: from Relay1.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 617BB46381; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:34:05 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.2 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: At Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:03:25 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > Nice emotive response, especially the subtle but unsubstantiated 'silent > > majority in favour' bit -- but you forgot the part where you were > > supposed to actually point out a tangible benefit which is achieved by > > breaking compatibility like this. > > Umm. The 'git-xyzzy' thing has been one of the #1 complaints since pretty > much day#1. The number of people complaining about it going away has > literally been _much_ smaller than the people who complained about it > being there. > > Also, like it or not, it's done. So the argument about "compatibility" is > TOTAL AND UTTER BULLSHIT. There is no compatibility, because we already > released a major version without them. Well, you can still install git-* to /usr/bin by specifying gitexecdir=/usr/bin at make. So, the compatibility is not lost. It's just a default configuration issue, IMO. Takashi