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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:20:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1rjtxtu0.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52deafded50ef99d904d2af39c098028b8714e86.1598443012.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget's message of "Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:56:51 +0000")

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> For a long time already, the non-dashed form of the built-ins is the
> recommended way to write scripts, i.e. it is better to call `git merge
> [...]` than to call `git-merge [...]`.
>
> While Git still supports the dashed form (by hard-linking the `git`
> executable to the dashed name in `libexec/git-core/`), in practice, it
> is probably almost irrelevant.

Let's drop this paragraph.  We do not have to defend this new opt-in
feature with "probably".  Even if there are folks heavily depend on
the old promise of having all binaries on disk, giving the rest of
the world an option to have Git without that promise is a good thing
as long as there is a good reason why the rest of the world would
want to omit binaries for builtins.  And we do have a good one below.

> However, we *do* care about keeping people's scripts working (even if
> they were written before the non-dashed form started to be recommended).

That misses the point.  They were written in dashed form, and when
we started recommending non-dashed form, they were TOLD to tweak it
by adjusting PATH early in their script, and they did so to keep the
script working.  So it is not "even if".  We do care because we
promised them that we will *NOT* break them if they did such and
such, and they followed that recommendation.

> Keeping this backwards-compatibility is not necessarily cheap, though:
> ...
> introduce a Makefile knob to skip generating them.

I do not have anything add to the good argument above (elided) to
allow those who know they do not rely on the age old promise.  Well
written.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-26 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-17  9:07 [PATCH 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17  4:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 18:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 12:47     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-24 18:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-25  8:07         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-25 16:03           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-17  9:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17  9:24   ` Jeff King
2020-08-17  5:51     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 21:37       ` Jeff King
2020-08-18  6:17         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17  9:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 18:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 14:58     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17  9:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 18:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 15:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 15:37   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 15:37   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 19:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-25  8:20       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-24 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 19:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-25  8:30       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-25 13:47     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-08-25 15:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26  4:19         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-26 16:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 16:24             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-02  7:06             ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-02 20:50               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-27  8:30           ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-08-24 18:55   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 19:03     ` Jeff King
2020-08-24 19:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 11:56   ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 11:56     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 11:56     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 16:20       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-08-26 11:56     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-03 10:45       ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-09-08 11:32         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-08 11:48           ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-09-08 17:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-21 22:28     ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:28       ` [PATCH v4 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:28       ` [PATCH v4 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:28       ` [PATCH v4 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:53         ` Junio C Hamano

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