On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Excellent. All we need to do is make sure the distributions all set > > > $(gitexecdir) to /usr/bin when they upgrade to 1.6.0 -- and could you > > > also fix it on master.kernel.org please? > > > > Are you trying to irritate me even more? > > Not at all; I'm sorry if that's the effect. > > > Although I personally did not particularly like the "out of /usr/bin" move, > > this was done by user request. I now am hated for doing something I was > > dragged into doing, not because I wanted the change, but only because many > > others wanted it, and you are dreaming that another pointless change will > > be made in the other direction? > > I'm not asking you to make another change in upstream git. You've told > us the workaround (gitexecdir=/usr/bin), and that workaround is no > longer going to be deprecated, which is great. It's just up to us to > ensure that we use that workaround when we build git for ourselves, and > to ensure that our distributions also build packages using that > workaround. ... effectively denying all those who asked for "git " from _easily_ getting it. OTOH, you can _trivially_ add $(git --exec-path) to your $PATH and forget about it. Nicolas -- 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
