At Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:03:25 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > Nice emotive response, especially the subtle but unsubstantiated 'silent > > majority in favour' bit -- but you forgot the part where you were > > supposed to actually point out a tangible benefit which is achieved by > > breaking compatibility like this. > > Umm. The 'git-xyzzy' thing has been one of the #1 complaints since pretty > much day#1. The number of people complaining about it going away has > literally been _much_ smaller than the people who complained about it > being there. > > Also, like it or not, it's done. So the argument about "compatibility" is > TOTAL AND UTTER BULLSHIT. There is no compatibility, because we already > released a major version without them. Well, you can still install git-* to /usr/bin by specifying gitexecdir=/usr/bin at make. So, the compatibility is not lost. It's just a default configuration issue, IMO. Takashi -- 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
