Re: Start deprecating "git-command" in favor of "git command"

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On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:37:07PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, walt wrote:
> 
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > I realize that a lot of people use the "git-xyzzy" format, and we have
> > > various historical reasons for it...
> > 
> > One of the historical reasons was to allow users of gnu interactive
> > tools to delete the git wrapper script, as outlined in 'INSTALL'.
> > 
> > Seems unlikely that 'git' could still be deleted if your proposed
> > changes are implemented.  I recall that a few people cared a lot
> > about this, and not too long ago.
> 
> All this would be less of a problem if Git consisted only of builtins, 
> since you could easily do "mv git gitscm" then. *sigh*

That *would* be a problem for all porcelains - stgit, guilt, qgit,
etc, all have to find git...

Best regards,
-- 
Yann
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