Steven Rostedt [off-list ref] writes:
Yes, they are all a bunch of Nazi git fanatics, that Hitler himself would
have used the space version of git. He sent the Jews off to the
concentration camps because they insisted on using the dashes.
There, we have a Hitler reference.
CAN WE PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE!
Yeah, I second this.
The primary topic has already settled, and we will keep git-foo in libexec
even for built-ins.
This offtopic tangent that shouldn't even have started from the beginning
must die now. It outlived its usefulness even as a place for people to
vent.