On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Al Viro  wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:57:56AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:

>

>> 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.

>

> Egads...  For sarcasm it's far too heavy-handed and if that's for real...

> What's next, verbal diarrhea about Diluting the Message(tm)?

Sorry, I guess I should have made it clearer.
I haven't made my mind about git-foo vs "git foo", but a decision has

been made to deprecate git-foo, and allow it as an option for the

people that really want to use it, right?
So there must have been a reason to deprecate git-foo, if people keep

using git-foo, and distributions keep allowing it, what's the point of

deprecation? It's ok if they keep that usage to themselves, like

'alias ll = ls -l', but it's not something to assume everybody uses.
So either we take back the decision and keep discussing if it's a good

idea to deprecate git-foo, or we go forward and discourage git-foo

completely.
Anything in the middle would just confuse people more, and wouldn't

achieve the purpose of deprecation.
If some script is relying on git-foo, and it has been deprecated, it

should be fixed.
Best regards.
--

Felipe Contreras

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