From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?David_K=E5gedal?= Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:28:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200509050054.j850sC3D023778@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 05 18:33:57 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECJt3-0000Z5-VL for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:32:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932330AbVIEQbj convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:31:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932331AbVIEQbj (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:31:39 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:27623 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932330AbVIEQbi (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:31:38 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ECJqK-0008Gh-Iy for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:29:12 +0200 Received: from 212214120186-virtutech-ab.host.songnetworks.se ([212.214.120.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:29:12 +0200 Received: from davidk by 212214120186-virtutech-ab.host.songnetworks.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:29:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212214120186-virtutech-ab.host.songnetworks.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mO3athkwdUbRVsgFJ38z90KhexU= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, David K=E5gedal wrote: >>=20 >> But to the users (like myself), there's no point in naming it by >> whether it's a script or a binary.=20 > > So? There's no downside. > > To you, as a user, you never see the "-script" ending anyway. You'd n= ever=20 > type it out, or you're already doing something wrong. Then I'm doing something wrong. And I'm pretty sure others are too. If I'm not supposed to see the "-script" ending, then don't install it in my $PATH. Until someone (possibly myself) writes some zsh completion code to handle git sub command, I will continue to hit TAB and see all those names. =46urthermore, the man page for "git clone" is called "git-clone-script(1)". And the "-script" suffix appears inside the documentation in various places. I see it in howtos and log messages. And the git-merge-one-file-script script is supposed to be used in a way where I have to supply the long name. Etc. If the "-script" part is supposed to be hidden from me, why do I keep seeing it everywhere I turn? > So to users it doesn't matter, and to developers it _does_ matter (an= d=20 > calling them ".pl" or ".sh" or something would be _bad_), why not ple= ase=20 > the developers? I'm not suggesting we'd call them ".pl" or ".sh". --=20 David K=E5gedal