Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

There is one alternative, and one augmentation:

 (A) We do not do anything.

 (B) In addition to the main transition plan, outside git, prepare an
     optional "git-old-style" package that installs many "git-foo"
     wrappers in $PATH (i.e. /usr/bin).  Each of them exec "git foo".
     People who like the dashed form can keep typing "git-foo", even
     though that will cost them two exec()s.

I actually suspect that (A) is fine.

I suggested removing the "git-xyzzy" hardlinks entirely, but that was just
because I didn't think anybody wanted them.

But given that with the 1.6.0 model you can always just do

       PATH="PATH:$(git --exec-path)"

If it is simple enough to get the git-abc commands by simply editing
the PATH var then I would have to agree that (A) is the option I would
prefer as well (not that I am as important as Linus though :)). I am
also using the git-abc formats in some of my scripts but I would
rather edit the PATH variable than to have then installed in /usr/bin
(Not to mention that I will be update to 'git abc' as soon as I have
time :)).

in your .bashrc or similar to get the git-xyzzy form, and given that
clearly some people like using them, there's really no downside to keeping
them.

I _would_ suggest against putting them in /usr/bin, even as a
"compatibility plan". Just expose them to people who want them, who can
really quite easily do the above PATH setting.

               Linus
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