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

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:25:13PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

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git-<tab><tab> ... what? 140-something commands? I'll better start looking
for alternatives _right now_!

Actually, this is the only realistic argument I can remember at all.
Are there any others? I couldn't come up with any - but I didn't do much
history digging: others seem to be equally in dark, though.

The three reasons I can recall are:

  - too many commands on completion

  - confusion between "git-*" and "git *" equivalence, and inability to
    perform some operations with "git-*" (like git --no-pager).

  - I might be wrong, but I think there was discussion of a
    hardlink-challenged platform where we wasted space by copying the
    'git' binary. Taking git-* out of /usr/bin is the first step to
    removing the hardlinks entirely.

-Peff