On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:32 AM, David Woodhouse  wrote:

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> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:17 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>> David Woodhouse  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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