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

Linus Torvalds wrote:

So live with it, and just add the 

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

as a "compatibility layer" to your own setup already. There is no 
downside, and I think there _is_ a big upside, and no, it's not just about 
"/usr/bin" being smaller.

Actually, this is acceptable since I set gitexecdir to $(bindir) in my 
make invocation.

*BUT* the recent discussion of not creating the hardlinks in 
git/core/libexec, introducing obnoxious warnings when using the dashed 
forms, and eventually having the git binary error when invoked as a 
dashed command is NOT acceptable. The discussion that happened in 
November and December 2006 was only about about moving the executables 
out of /usr/bin, not the completely disabling of the dashed forms for 
those users and distributions that want them.