From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian•org>
To: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort•gr.jp>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:38:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080203103804.GC323@artemis.madism.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878x22j1km.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:00:57AM +0000, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> When I was idly googling around for traces of VCS and popularity,
> noticed that Git is actually pretty popular. Googling for 'gitweb'
> and 'viewcvs' and other comparative web-frontend variants floating in
> the cyberspace I get these number of hits (in rough estimate) :
>
> 10000000 CVS
> 1000000 SVN
> 100000 Git
> 10000 Mercurial / Darcs
> 1000 Bzr
>
> This is crude, and I'm sure someone else will come up with a better
> estimate. The point is, when there are so many users, people don't
> read the lists or the changelog, but rely on manuals, and be surprised
> with this change.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=svn%2C+git%2C+mercurial%2C+bzr%2C+darcs&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
:)
> I was wondering why I use the git-xxx format so much (in muscle, and
> in scripts). And realized I have the following reasons:
>
> 1. That's the form documented in the manual pages (generated from asciidoc)
>
> 2. That's the name manual pages are in.
>
> 3. Linus said it's better (3 years ago), and I thought so too.
> (Situation has changed, bash has better completion for 'git'
> commands, so that's no longer valid)
>
> 4. There was a GNU Interactive Tools with the same name 'git', so it
> was better to avoid confusion then. (This is still the case with
> Debian, where the sysadmin can choose whether to make 'git' (GNU
> Interactive Tools) the default, or our beloved git.
>
> 5. There are many documentations floating around.
>
> 6. I'm used to it.
Yes, but your aliases are not usable through git-foo, only git foo is.
So for consistency reasons, non dashed versions are better.
And one could in the future have builtin commands without the
corresponding git-foo and git-bar either. I'm thinking
git-revert/git-cherry-pick that use _exactly_ the same code and code
objects, hence having the two binary is somehow a waste of space.
git-log variants are the same, and so on. I'm not saying this _will_ be
done, TTBOMK it has not even been discussed, but that may happen at some
point.
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-02 4:34 [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 Junio C Hamano
2008-02-02 9:25 ` Junichi Uekawa
2008-02-02 15:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 1:00 ` Junichi Uekawa
2008-02-03 2:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 3:16 ` Junichi Uekawa
2008-02-03 3:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 3:51 ` Junichi Uekawa
2008-02-03 5:32 ` Christian Couder
2008-02-03 10:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 10:38 ` Pierre Habouzit [this message]
2008-02-03 12:56 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-03 15:08 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-02-03 15:34 ` [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 (git popularity) Jakub Narebski
2008-02-03 19:27 ` [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 Theodore Tso
2008-02-04 20:35 ` Jari Aalto
2008-02-02 9:45 ` しらいしななこ
2008-02-02 12:11 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-02-02 22:42 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-07 12:31 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 12:55 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 13:07 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 13:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 13:43 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071324460.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 13:53 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-07 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <7v1w7ooes3.fsf-jO8aZxhGsIagbBziECNbOZn29agUkmeCHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 18:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071831520.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 18:59 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 19:08 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071906120.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 21:02 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-02-07 19:42 ` [msysGit] " Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <7vprv8mu2k.fsf-jO8aZxhGsIagbBziECNbOZn29agUkmeCHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802071157360.2896-5CScLwifNT1QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 20:58 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-08 1:53 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802080143440.11591-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-08 9:22 ` Schuberth, Sebastian
[not found] ` <E6DFE65BB5ADFE44BE13CCC976124447D5BCC8-xoGCv1uRt2M6PgvdBIHKsVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-08 11:14 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-07 20:23 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-02-07 21:49 ` [msysGit] " Jonathan del Strother
[not found] ` <57518fd10802071349w50446803q249cbda0e2998bc5-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 22:18 ` Dmitry Potapov
[not found] ` <20080207221837.GQ30368-EQL4cN526mwi5CQI31g/s0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-07 22:46 ` Jari Aalto
[not found] ` <20080207130715.GA14000-oEplIgxCSygGFt9iVWuREaMaJEuR8uiQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 14:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-07 15:59 ` [msysGit] " Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 16:12 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-07 16:21 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <20080207155946.GA20459-oEplIgxCSygGFt9iVWuREaMaJEuR8uiQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 16:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-07 16:41 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802071133230.2732-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 16:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071651440.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 18:55 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 18:52 ` [msysGit] " Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 17:01 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-07 17:15 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802070949460.2732-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-09 9:25 ` Andreas Ericsson
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071255110.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 13:23 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2008-02-07 13:25 ` [msysGit] " David Kastrup
[not found] ` <86k5lguce2.fsf-Gv3ZRPJT63HkqtzbHXq1RqVXKuFTiq87@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 14:04 ` Michael Poole
2008-02-07 14:29 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <86tzkksuua.fsf-Gv3ZRPJT63HkqtzbHXq1RqVXKuFTiq87@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 16:02 ` Michael Poole
2008-02-07 16:13 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 18:10 ` [msysGit] " Jari Aalto
[not found] ` <20080207123108.GA12009-oEplIgxCSygGFt9iVWuREaMaJEuR8uiQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 19:58 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-02-03 17:55 ` Dmitry Potapov
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