Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Tim Ottinger [off-list ref] writes:

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git-update-cache for instance?

Logically you are right, but I suspect that may not fly well in
practice.  Too many of us have already got our fingers wired to
type cache, and the glossary is there to describe both cache and
index.

My vote's for changing the official names, but keeping symlinks for the 
old names. As far as I know, there aren't any actual conflicts, and we 
might as well have new users pick up the logical names. I particularly 
think "git merge" would be really good to have.

OK.  As Horst also says, we should do this before 1.0.

0.99.6::
	This hopefully will be done on Sep 7th.  Tool renames
	will not happen in this release, but the set of cleaned
	up names will be discussed on the list during this
	timeperiod.  I'll draw up a strawman tonight unless
	somebody else does it first.

0.99.7::
	We install symbolic links for the old names.  For the
	documentation, we do not bother --- just install under
	new names.  Also remove support for ancient environment
	variable names from gitenv().  Aim for Sep 17th.

0.99.8::
	Aim for Oct 1st; we do not install symbolic links
	anymore and supply "clean-old-install" target in the
	Makefile that removes symlinks installed by 0.99.7 from
	DESTDIR.  This target is not run automatically from other
	usual make targets; it is just there for your
	convenience.