Linus, On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:03:25AM -0700, Linus Torvalds 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. But _why_ do they complain? Just whining or real reasons? > 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. Then release a 1.6.0.1. But the major problem is something else: it's that doing PATH="$PATH:$(git --exec-path) is also deprecated, i.e. that workaround is to go away in one of the next releases too. > - new people don't even learn the mistakes But new people read "git-diff-tree" in the man pages, and then wonder why "git-diff-tree" does not work. People read howtos in the Documentation/ directory and wonder why executing "git-diff-tree" does not work. Besides, why it is a "mistake" to use git-xyzyy? Also, note that 1.5.4.x man pages uses git-xyzzy form in many many places, not hinting at all of git-xyzyy being deprecated. > and there really is zero downside apart from the _trivial_ downside of you > just having to add a single PATH thing to your .bashrc or something. downsides: - man pages. man git-add for the command "git add" is a bit... disappointing. - lots of documentation using "git-xyzyy" - the PATH workaround being deprecated Best, Dominik -- 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
