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

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 20:33 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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.

  (C) Just don't do it. Leave the git-foo commands as they were. They
      weren't actually hurting anyone, and you don't actually _gain_
      anything by removing them. For those occasional nutters who
      _really_ care about the size of /usr/bin, give them the _option_
      of a 'make install' without installing the aliases.

(Oh look, my /usr/bin has 3806 files in it. And except when I
accidentally point the $%#@&! GNOME file dialog box at it, I don't
_care_.)

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