Re: [PATCH] help.c: Pull cmd_version out of this file.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Ah, found it.[1]

| At this point, adding the dashed-form "git-version" to the filesystem is
| going backwards.  These files are only to help people who have old scripts
| from pre 1.6.0 days with "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH" with their
| environment.
|
| We should instead try to not adding them (which would probably need tweak
| in the command list generation code in "git help"), as nobody from pre
| 1.6.0 era would have called "git-version" binary.

Hope that helps.

Nope, sorry. I don't fully understand his explanation.

Also, Junio, thanks for the "I don't like
churning-for-the-sake-of-churning". This is very incentive.