Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote:

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

quoted

not to belabour this (and i'm sure it's *way* too late for that),
but fedora has the following packaging scheme.  first, there's a
bunch of stuff in "git-core", which has no dependencies on any
other git-related packages.

The split in Fedora between git and git-core is done to minimize the
dependencies required for a minimal git install.  The initial reason
was to to allow installing the git-core package on systems, in
containers, etc. without requiring perl and its various dependencies
to be installed.

The name git-core was not chosen to imply any official status as
core versus contrib from upstream.

  ... snip ...

  oh, i understand completely (i particularly like that fedora
supports a "git-extras" package with loads of cool stuff). remember
that this all started when i pointed out that, over at
https://git-scm.com/doc, there is a link entitled "Reference Manual"
(https://git-scm.com/docs) that assures the reader, "The official and
comprehensive man pages that are included in the Git package itself",
so it's just a matter of someone deciding what *exactly* corresponds
to "the Git package itself" to make sure all relevant man pages can be
found there.

  just being pedantic, as is my wont.

rday