Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > For the benefit of newcomers, I just wish the plumbing was kept a  
> > little bit out of sight. You know, porcelain in /usr/bin and plumbing  
> > in /usr/libexec or other such place.
> >
> > It's fine once you've learnt your workflows and know the 10 or 15 Git  
> > tools that you'll be using day-to-day; but for people who are just  
> > starting off this can be a little bit intimidating:
> >
> > $ git-<tab>
> > Display all 146 possibilities? (y or n)
> 
> I'd agree to that but I've always considered this an issue for distros.
> We've supported an ability for them to specify a gitexecdir separate
> from /usr/bin in our Makefile for almost two years.

Would probably be a good thing to start enforcing that by default. It's 
easier to follow such policies when they're coordinated from the project 
origin.


Nicolas
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