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

Oh yeah, sorry.  I neglected to mention that my problem was having the  
git- forms in scripts all over an internal network, and having no  
amazingly easy way of fixing them.  I don't know who all copied them.


On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Perry Wagle wrote:

On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Steven Rostedt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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.

I suggested that git<DASH><TAB> used to give the same 143  
completions that git<SPACE><TAB> would now.  This meant that making  
any arguments that the number was off-putting to newbies did not  
apply, since you had a same number (143)  either way.  Putting stuff  
in libexec does not change the above observation in any fashion.

A response to my observation was that "not everything will show up  
in the latter completion".  I balked at that as it distorted the  
truth.  If this distortion would actually take place then I have a  
real complaint.  Not a tangent.

But as long as git<DASH><TAB> does the *same* thing as  
git<SPACE><TAB>, I really do not see why you had to go break my  
scripts on a *minor* revision for what amounts to no reason as all.

Shells *hash* the PATH, so there is no "linear list" issue, and you  
have the *same* behavior for <TAB> completion both ways.

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