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

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ah, found it.[1]
>
> | At this point, adding the dashed-form "git-version" to the filesystem is
> | going backwards. ÂThese 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.
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