David Woodhouse wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 20:33 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:There is one alternative, and one augmentation: (A) We do not do anything. (B) In addition to the main transition plan, outside git, prepare an optional "git-old-style" package that installs many "git-foo" wrappers in $PATH (i.e. /usr/bin). Each of them exec "git foo". People who like the dashed form can keep typing "git-foo", even though that will cost them two exec()s.(C) Just don't do it. Leave the git-foo commands as they were. They weren't actually hurting anyone, and you don't actually _gain_ anything by removing them. For those occasional nutters who _really_ care about the size of /usr/bin, give them the _option_ of a 'make install' without installing the aliases. (Oh look, my /usr/bin has 3806 files in it. And except when I accidentally point the $%#@&! GNOME file dialog box at it, I don't _care_.)
I'll second that. I've not heard a good argument against the git-foo commands. If they were going to be deprecated, it should have actually happened a long time ago.
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