From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat•com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The big git command renaming..
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:35:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050429213540.GA1691@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504291416190.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ok, I hate to do this, since my fingers have already gotten used to the
> old names, but we clearly can't continue to use command names like
> "update-cache" or "read-tree" that are totally non-git-specific.
>
> So I just pushed out a change that renames the commands to always have a
> "git-" prefix. In addition, I renamed "show-diff" to "diff-files", with
> together with the prefix means that it becomes "git-diff-files" when used.
>
> Since I end up using tab-completion for almost all my work, and since
> -within- the source directory there's no confusion, I didn't actually name
> the source files with any git- prefix. Quite the reverse: I removed the
> prefix from the two .c files that already had it (so git-mktag.c is now
> just "mktag.c"), and the general rule for building the executable from a C
> file is now
>
> git-%: %.c $(LIB_FILE)
> $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(filter %.c,$^) $(LIBS)
>
>
> this seemed to be a nice regular interface that means that binaries get
> installed with clear "git-" prefixes, but that I don't have to look at
> them when I edit the sources.
Can you push out a new tarball to kernel.org too please, to kill
some potential confusion in documentation/scripts ?
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-29 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-29 21:24 The big git command renaming Linus Torvalds
2005-04-29 21:35 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-04-29 21:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-29 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-29 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-29 23:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-29 23:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-29 21:41 ` [PATCH] The big git command renaming fallout fix Junio C Hamano
2005-04-29 21:53 ` [PATCH] Makefile: " Junio C Hamano
2005-04-30 14:24 ` The big git command renaming Nicolas Pitre
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