4 messages, 4 authors, 2016-06-15 · open the first message on its own page
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:04
Ryan Anderson [off-list ref] writes:
See, for example, the history on git-rename-script for why this is good.
Why do you think it is a good example? What happens when next time somebody rewrites it in C?
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:04
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Ryan Anderson [off-list ref] writes:quoted
See, for example, the history on git-rename-script for why this is good.Why do you think it is a good example? What happens when next time somebody rewrites it in C?
We'll call the C version "rename.c", and the program gets to be called "git-rename", and "git rename" continues to work perfectly fine, so users won't be affected in the least. And "grep ... *.c" and "grep ... *-script" also still work right. That sounds like a good outcome to me. Linus
From: Ryan Anderson <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:04
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 01:57:22AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Ryan Anderson [off-list ref] writes:quoted
See, for example, the history on git-rename-script for why this is good.Why do you think it is a good example? What happens when next time somebody rewrites it in C?
Well, I was really responding to the comment about "-script" being better than ".sh", as trying ".sh", ".pl", ".php", etc, would rapidly be annoying. Honestly, I think the biggest argument against the "-script" suffix is related to man-page usage: It requires significant knowledge of the Git project to figure out what name variant to use to find the man page. (There are other problems with man pages, but I'll address those seperately now that they have occurred to me.) -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere
From: Petr Baudis <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:04
Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:25:12AM CEST, I got a letter where Ryan Anderson [off-list ref] told me that...
Honestly, I think the biggest argument against the "-script" suffix is related to man-page usage: It requires significant knowledge of the Git project to figure out what name variant to use to find the man page.
.oO(Hey, tcl has own man section as well!) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox