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

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:23:50PM -0700, Perry Wagle wrote:

On Aug 28, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote:

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I have come to understand that "git " has quite long time been more
robust and portable way of writing scripts. They work in both
configurations so I'd definitely suggest doing "s/git-/git /g" for every
script. Of course in an interactive shell everyone can use whatever they
prefer and works at the moment.

Sure.  Its an extra fork in git command intensive scripts (and git is racey 
still maybe), but *shrug*.

Do you have any details on the races in Git you know about?

This does not mean an extra fork, only extra exec. In case of builtin
commands (which is actually a large majority by now), not even that.

Even as of March 2008 (our last sync with git before the git scripting was 
completed and we got on to other things), the sample scripts and gitweb 
still used the git<DASH> form.  If this has been brewing for two years, 
there shouldn't have been a git<DASH> form in the scripts in the standard 
source *anywhere* for those two years.

I agree that this is a problem. Even now, the documentation is using
git- at plenty of places. Patches are welcome, I'm sure.

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