On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Al Viro <viro@hera.kernel.org> 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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