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

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, walt wrote:

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Linus Torvalds wrote:

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I realize that a lot of people use the "git-xyzzy" format, and we have
various historical reasons for it...

One of the historical reasons was to allow users of gnu interactive
tools to delete the git wrapper script, as outlined in 'INSTALL'.

...

All this would be less of a problem if Git consisted only of builtins, 
since you could easily do "mv git gitscm" then. *sigh*

I just installed the gnu tools as a test (gentoo won't allow both gits to
be installed at the same time, btw) and I found that each package installs
one main 'git' along with a collection of other tools beginning with the
prefix git.

One major difference is that our git names them git-* while the gnu tools
names them git*, so only the main 'git's conflict.  The gnu 'git' can also
be renamed and it still works.  'man git' might still be a problem.