On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> There is one alternative, and one augmentation:

>

>  (A) We do not do anything.

>

>  (B) In addition to the main transition plan, outside git, prepare an

>      optional "git-old-style" package that installs many "git-foo"

>      wrappers in $PATH (i.e. /usr/bin).  Each of them exec "git foo".

>      People who like the dashed form can keep typing "git-foo", even

>      though that will cost them two exec()s.

I actually suspect that (A) is fine.
I suggested removing the "git-xyzzy" hardlinks entirely, but that was just

because I didn't think anybody wanted them.
But given that with the 1.6.0 model you can always just do
	PATH="PATH:$(git --exec-path)"
in your .bashrc or similar to get the git-xyzzy form, and given that

clearly some people like using them, there's really no downside to keeping

them.
I _would_ suggest against putting them in /usr/bin, even as a

"compatibility plan". Just expose them to people who want them, who can

really quite easily do the above PATH setting.
		Linus

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