Linus Torvalds venit, vidit, dixit 21.08.2008 17:35: > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Personally, I think this grand renaming was a huge step backwards; an attempt >> to be bug-compatible with other SCMs. The only people I personally ever saw >> complaining about the situation in the first place were people who were >> fanbois of some other SCM. > > Heh. It's true that the push came from people who were used to the "scm > xyz" model, but it's also true that git basically made the situation in > /usb/bin even worse. > > You _can_ actually have the "best of both worlds" (if you really do want > to continue the "git-xyzzy" usage) by doing > > PATH=$PATH:$(git --exec-path) > > although there has been noise about removing the built-in commands > entirely even from there. I'm cc'ing the git mailing list just to bring > the point up - I'm the one who actually championed removing the > "unnecessary" hardlinks, and it seems that nto doing so was the right > choice. > > One of the reasons that the dashed format is being removed is a real > technical one, though: git aliases. They never supported the dashed > format, since they never were real executables (that's the whole point of > an alias, after all). > > So even with the above path thing, you'll still have to use the spacey > version for any aliases you use. Come to think of it: Maybe commands like "git pull" should, when spitting out warnings, refer to "git help pull" rather than "git-pull(1)" now. I do like it spacey, but the man issue is confusing. It continues with the links in the help/man pages, of course. Michael -- 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
