I swear we new users would have never guessed that git-whatever was yes the new, but _deprecated_ style, until we asked on this newslist, and today chucked Debian sid for Debian experimental, to see the following. OK. Good to finally know. I feel sorry for all the Debian Sid users who haven't heard the news and are putting the soon to break form into their scripts and newsposts. Indeed, you on the mailing list could point out to any users that what they just posted is going to break soon. Wait, e.g., git commit --help, man git-commit, etc. are still full of the old notation here now in 1.6.0... --- News for git-core (git-core git-email gitk) --- git-core (1:1.6.0-1) experimental; urgency=low Most of the programs are now installed outside the default $PATH, except for "git", "gitk" and some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical reasons. Invoking a git subcommand as "git-xyzzy" from the command line has been deprecated since early 2006 (and officially announced in the 1.5.4 release notes); using the "git-xyzzy" form in scripts after adding the output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this release, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their scripts to use the "git xyzzy" form, as this support might be dropped in later releases. -- Gerrit Pape <pape@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:31:44 +0000 -- 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
