On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:

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> Nice emotive response, especially the subtle but unsubstantiated 'silent

> majority in favour' bit -- but you forgot the part where you were

> supposed to actually point out a tangible benefit which is achieved by

> breaking compatibility like this.

Umm. The 'git-xyzzy' thing has been one of the #1 complaints since pretty

much day#1. The number of people complaining about it going away has

literally been _much_ smaller than the people who complained about it

being there.
Also, like it or not, it's done. So the argument about "compatibility" is

TOTAL AND UTTER BULLSHIT. There is no compatibility, because we already

released a major version without them.
So live with it, and just add the 
	PATH="$PATH:$(git --exec-path)"
as a "compatibility layer" to your own setup already. There is no

downside, and I think there _is_ a big upside, and no, it's not just about

"/usr/bin" being smaller.
In case you wonder, the upside is:
 - new people don't even learn the mistakes
 - the people who _did_ complain are happier
 - this model allows a per-user-preference model even on the same machine

   (ie even on something like master.kernel.org, everybody can choose

   _individually_ whether they want to see 'git-xyzzy' or not!)
and there really is zero downside apart from the _trivial_ downside of you

just having to add a single PATH thing to your .bashrc or something.
			Linus

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