Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

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Anyway, while actually removing the "git-xyzzy" things is not practical 
right now, we can certainly start slowly to deprecate it internally inside 
git itself - in the shell scripts we use, and the test vectors.

So I am somewhat negative on this, unless there is a way for
scripts to say "Even though I say 'git foo', I do mean 'git foo'
not whatever the user has aliased".

Having said that, I am not opposed to encourage distros to set
gitexecdir to $(prefix)/libexec in their modified Makefile.
There is no reason to contaminate a directory on end users'
$PATH with hundreds of commands that begin with "git-" prefix.

In fact, I used to configure my copy of git with gitexecdir set
to outside my $PATH when we first started pushing it to make
sure everything works (I do not install git from distro on my
machine so I know I have only one instance of bin/git in my
path).  It used to work, but I am no longer using that layout
these days, so it is entirely possible that we might have broken
the support along the way.  And _that_ is worth fixing.