Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

On Nov 29, 2007 10:08 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:56PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

 - Post v1.5.5, start cooking the change that does not install hardlinks
   for built-in commands, aiming for inclusion in v1.6.0, by the end of
   2008.

I am against this, unless it is configurable. I think the goal of
reducing user-visible commands is fine, and moving things to
$(libexecdir) is a good way of doing that.

However, I personally still think the 'git-foo' forms are valuable
(because fingers have already been trained, and because
non-bash-programmable completions understand them). And I don't mind
putting $(libexecdir)/git-core in my PATH to retain this behavior; it's
a one-time configuration tweak, and it helps new users with the
overwhelming command set.

But I don't see a point to removing the links entirely. The annoyance
factor for people who want git-* is much higher, and I don't see that it
actually buys us any help for new users (who will no longer care after
everything is hidden in $(libexecdir) anyway).

Maybe only not install hardlinks on systems that do not support it
like Windows? git.exe duplication takes a lot of space.
-- 
Duy