On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:32 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:
>>
>> > Excellent. All we need to do is make sure the distributions all set
>> > $(gitexecdir) to /usr/bin when they upgrade to 1.6.0 -- and could you
>> > also fix it on master.kernel.org please?
>>
>> Are you trying to irritate me even more?
>
> Not at all; I'm sorry if that's the effect.
>
>> Although I personally did not particularly like the "out of /usr/bin" move,
>> this was done by user request.  I now am hated for doing something I was
>> dragged into doing, not because I wanted the change, but only because many
>> others wanted it, and you are dreaming that another pointless change will
>> be made in the other direction?
>
> I'm not asking you to make another change in upstream git. You've told
> us the workaround (gitexecdir=/usr/bin), and that workaround is no
> longer going to be deprecated, which is great. It's just up to us to
> ensure that we use that workaround when we build git for ourselves, and
> to ensure that our distributions also build packages using that
> workaround.
>
> Since I believe you're building the git packages used on kernel.org, I
> was just asking you to apply the workaround when you build _those_
> packages, that's all.

You are getting it wrong.

If *you* want the git-foo form, then *you* add the git exec dir to your PATH.

The masses should forget about the git-foo form. If you push people
into using git-foo then you are not following git guidelines; you
would be pushing your own agenda.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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