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

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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In March 2008, the sample git-hooks and git-web used git<DASH> commands.  
That was the last I looked at git until Tuesday of this week.

Yes, and some of the test scripts still have git-* in them. I think in
that respect, the git community has been very bad about eating our own
dog food.

Not at all.

For one thing, hooks do run under modified PATH, as already pointed out in
the earlier thread.

Test scripts are executed in a special environment whose GIT_EXEC_PATH
points at the top of the build tree, where all git-foo lives.

Before anybody greps in Documentation/ to make pointless noises about some
dashed-form git-foo in there when we do not talk about what the user types
but about a command as a concept in manual pages, they are left in dashed
form deliberately, partly to help manpage browsers crosslink across pages.

We could have described typographic convention,

Cf.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86940/focus=87008

but we ended up not doing so.