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

At Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:03:25 -0700 (PDT),
Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

quoted

Nice emotive response, especially the subtle but unsubstantiated 'silent
majority in favour' bit -- but you forgot the part where you were
supposed to actually point out a tangible benefit which is achieved by
breaking compatibility like this.

Umm. The 'git-xyzzy' thing has been one of the #1 complaints since pretty 
much day#1. The number of people complaining about it going away has 
literally been _much_ smaller than the people who complained about it 
being there.

Also, like it or not, it's done. So the argument about "compatibility" is 
TOTAL AND UTTER BULLSHIT. There is no compatibility, because we already 
released a major version without them.

Well, you can still install git-* to /usr/bin by specifying
gitexecdir=/usr/bin at make.  So, the compatibility is not lost.

It's just a default configuration issue, IMO.


Takashi