On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 05:14:28PM +0200, Hendrik Visage wrote: > as few of you might know, there existed a very nice mc/norton commander > orientated tool called git > Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/git/ > Description: GNU Interactive Tools - increase speed and > efficiency of most daily task Yes, this has been discussed in the past. > This package have been in existence since many summers, but the name choice for > git - the stupid content tracker, seems to cause several weird problems when > you don't want/expect it :( GNU git development is dead. The last release is from March 13, 2000. > Could the name git perhaps be reconsideredto something like SCT? or GnuSCT? I don't think that will happen. The number of source control git users outnumbers the number of GNU git users, so consider it a lost case. > Just asking, as it do cause hassles when an environment is using git > and suddenly > need to load git to download newer drivers etc. and then git isn't > working because the wrong git is in the right place :( I think we found the only GNU git user in the world! ;-) A simple workaround would be to install git in a directory not in your path and put a shell script "sct" in your path that just calls git. Something like (untested): #! /bin/sh # sct: call git gitpath=/path/to/git export PATH=$gitpath:$PATH exec $gitpath/git $* Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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 Tue Jan 31 02:39:06 2006
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