Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:17:12PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Petr Baudis [off-list ref] wrote:

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Can we agree that direct calls of libexec stuff should never be part 
of the "official" interface (i.e. not workarounds for deprecated 
usage)?

Agreed. It looks somewhat strange to type the libexec path in 
/etc/passwd.

FWIW I do not agree.  IMNHO libexec/ is just a way to organize executable 
parts of any software package that are usually not called from the command 
line.  And a login shell qualifies for that.

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Considering that calling the git-shell executable directly is the 
_only_ sensible way of using this interface, it should follow that it 
has to be in /usr/bin, no matter if users type this command or not.

Perhaps, /usr/sbin would be a better place, as it is intended only for 
system administration binaries.

Does it not strike you as odd, then, that "sh" -- by far the most common 
login shell -- does not live in /usr/sbin/?

But nologin is in /usr/sbin.

Mike