Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Oh, and we will not be moving things out of /usr/bin/ during 1.0
> > timeframe.
>
> :(  bummer.  I do like the elegance of having /usr/bin/git executing 
> stuff out of /usr/libexec/git.
> /usr/libexec/git also makes it IMO cleaner when integrating git plugins 
> from third parties (rpm -Uvh git-newfeature), because you don't have to 
> worry about the /usr/bin namespace.
It's nice in concept, but I think there are a lot of reasons why this is 
a bad idea:
- "man" doesn't handle it.  It would be another thing if "man" could be 
taught to understand commands like "man cvs checkout" or "man git fetch".
- There is no general way to teach shells etc about it, for tab 
completion etc.
- Makes it harder (but not impossible) to run git from a build directory 
without installing it first.
In comparison, the issue of clutter in /usr/bin is actually a pretty 
small issue, especially with htree.  Most vendors have gone back to 
putting everything into /usr/bin since all variants that involve 
splitting it up seem to be more of a loss than a gain.
	-hpa
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