Re: [PATCH] Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

Right. So we have some that must be "gitfoo", and others that do not
care. If we turned "githooks" into "git-hooks" and removed the "is it a
command?" magic from "git help", then "git help hooks" would still find
hooks. And likewise, "git help gitignore" would still find "gitignore".
But you could no longer say "git help ignore" to find "gitignore".

Which I think is a good thing ;-)

Which personally I am OK with. It is not a sensible thing to ask for;
the concept is not "ignore", but rather "the gitignore file".

Yes, exactly.

  4. Replace the rename "gitfoo" above with a "see git-foo..." pointer.
     Users of "git help foo" would not ever see this, but people who
     have trained their fingers to type "man gitfoo" would, along with
     anybody following an outdated HTML link.

  5. Update internal references to "linkgit:gitfoo" to point to
     "git-foo".

Hmm. That really does not seem so bad. The biggest downside is the
people who have to see the redirect made in step 4.

Yeah, I see that a show-stopper in the whole sequence.

This is one of the "if we had perfect knowledge we would have
designed it this way, and we could still migrate our current system
to that ideal, but it is dubious the difference between the current
system and the ideal will outweigh the cost of migration" moment,
isn't it?

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:52:52AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

  4. Replace the rename "gitfoo" above with a "see git-foo..." pointer.
     Users of "git help foo" would not ever see this, but people who
     have trained their fingers to type "man gitfoo" would, along with
     anybody following an outdated HTML link.

  5. Update internal references to "linkgit:gitfoo" to point to
     "git-foo".

Hmm. That really does not seem so bad. The biggest downside is the
people who have to see the redirect made in step 4.

Yeah, I see that a show-stopper in the whole sequence.

This is one of the "if we had perfect knowledge we would have
designed it this way, and we could still migrate our current system
to that ideal, but it is dubious the difference between the current
system and the ideal will outweigh the cost of migration" moment,
isn't it?

Yeah, perhaps. I did the patch series just to see what the effort would
be like. But at this point I am fine if we drop it (it sounded like
Jonathan was in favor of this direction, so maybe he wants to make a
final argument).

-Peff