Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Anyway, while actually removing the "git-xyzzy" things is not practical >> right now, we can certainly start slowly to deprecate it internally inside >> git itself - in the shell scripts we use, and the test vectors. > > So I am somewhat negative on this, unless there is a way for > scripts to say "Even though I say 'git foo', I do mean 'git foo' > not whatever the user has aliased". Having said that, I am not opposed to encourage distros to set gitexecdir to $(prefix)/libexec in their modified Makefile. There is no reason to contaminate a directory on end users' $PATH with hundreds of commands that begin with "git-" prefix. In fact, I used to configure my copy of git with gitexecdir set to outside my $PATH when we first started pushing it to make sure everything works (I do not install git from distro on my machine so I know I have only one instance of bin/git in my path). It used to work, but I am no longer using that layout these days, so it is entirely possible that we might have broken the support along the way. And _that_ is worth fixing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
