# Re: \[ANNOUNCE\] GIT 1.5.4

- From: Johannes Schindelin \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:09 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7329732
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2008/02/1055027/t.md

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Hi,

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Junichi Uekawa wrote:

> Hi,
> 

Who said that:

> > That woul be surprising.  Git was not invented until early April 2005.  
> > At the moment I still wait (impatiently, because then my current 
> > contract ends) for April 2008.

Please realize that you make it hard on _everybody else_ than you to 
follow who said what by egoistically deleting things that are important.  
Such as who said what.

> > The important thing to realise is that time is such a wonderful 
> > dimension to be exposed to: not only do you live (experience things 
> > that you did not know before), but also other people live and learn.
> > 
> > IOW even Linus realised that the git-xxx format is not _that_ good.  
> > Which is why -- as you should have realised if you did not subscribe 5 
> > minutes ago -- we do not recommend git-xxx at all, but insist on "git 
> > xxx".
> 
> I didn't realize that.
> 
> Git doesn't give any warnings, and manpages give the dashed examples 
> only.
> 
> Although I was subscribed to git-list from day 1, I must admit that 
> these days I don't read this list too closely (hence being caught in 
> surprise at this point).
> 
> I assume things started with the following commit; but really, can we 
> please start with some deprecation notice before really moving it around 
> in user-visible location.

That deprecation notice was the one you originally replied to.  So your 
request has been granted before you even asked for it.

But I suspect that you did not understand what I said: if you install a 
git script (that is not part of the "official" Git), it will probably be 
in the PATH, and you will not have a problem.

Hth,
Dscho
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