Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions?

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 09:17:19 -0500

Jon Seymour wrote:

> If git supported the concept of a standard place to put extensions,
> then it could be as simple as:
>
>     unzip -d $(git --plugins-dir) plugin.zip
>
> with no need to configure or choose a prefix and no need to edit the
> an .profile or .bashrc to permanently add a directory to the PATH.

Why not use "/usr/local" in place of "git --plugins-dir"?  (I can
think of one answer --- namely root privileges --- but it would apply
to any system with one standard place to put extensions.)