Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Oh, and we will not be moving things out of /usr/bin/ during 1.0 >> timeframe. > > > :( bummer. I do like the elegance of having /usr/bin/git executing > stuff out of /usr/libexec/git. > > /usr/libexec/git also makes it IMO cleaner when integrating git plugins > from third parties (rpm -Uvh git-newfeature), because you don't have to > worry about the /usr/bin namespace. > It's nice in concept, but I think there are a lot of reasons why this is a bad idea: - "man" doesn't handle it. It would be another thing if "man" could be taught to understand commands like "man cvs checkout" or "man git fetch". - There is no general way to teach shells etc about it, for tab completion etc. - Makes it harder (but not impossible) to run git from a build directory without installing it first. In comparison, the issue of clutter in /usr/bin is actually a pretty small issue, especially with htree. Most vendors have gone back to putting everything into /usr/bin since all variants that involve splitting it up seem to be more of a loss than a gain. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Nov 11 04:14:05 2005
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