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

My (ahem) implied point (sorry) also was that these "hook" scripts act  
as examples of how to write git scripts in general, and some of them  
are written to me run as regular scripts.

-- Perry

On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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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.