On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Yes, they are all a bunch of Nazi git fanatics, that Hitler himself
would
have used the space version of git. He sent the Jews off to the
concentration camps because they insisted on using the dashes.
There, we have a Hitler reference.
CAN WE PLEASE LET THIS THREAD DIE!
Yeah, I second this.
The primary topic has already settled, and we will keep git-foo in
libexec
even for built-ins.
This offtopic tangent that shouldn't even have started from the
beginning
must die now. It outlived its usefulness even as a place for people
to
vent.
I suggested that git<DASH><TAB> used to give the same 143 completions
that git<SPACE><TAB> would now. This meant that making any arguments
that the number was off-putting to newbies did not apply, since you
had a same number (143) either way. Putting stuff in libexec does
not change the above observation in any fashion.
A response to my observation was that "not everything will show up in
the latter completion". I balked at that as it distorted the truth.
If this distortion would actually take place then I have a real
complaint. Not a tangent.
But as long as git<DASH><TAB> does the *same* thing as
git<SPACE><TAB>, I really do not see why you had to go break my
scripts on a *minor* revision for what amounts to no reason as all.
Shells *hash* the PATH, so there is no "linear list" issue, and you
have the *same* behavior for <TAB> completion both ways.
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