On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > first, here are the executables under /usr/libexec/git-core/ that
> > are unreferenced by that web page, but that should be fine as
> > almost all of them would be considered underlying helpers or
> > utilities (except for things like git-subtree, but we're still
> > unclear on its status, right?):
>
> I don't think there's anything unclear about git subtree's status.
> It's in contrib/ within the source, so it's not part of the core git
> suite. Some distributions (Fedora being one of them) ship a
> git-subtree package to provide it for users who want it.
>
> > on the other hand (and this is not so much a git issue as a fedora
> > packaging issue), there are a number of command links at that web
> > page that are supplied by distinct RPM packages rather than by the
> > basic fedora git package, so one would need to install the
> > following packages to get some of those commands on fedora:
> >
> > * gitk
> > * git-cvs
> > * git-svn
> > * git-p4
> > * git-email (provides git-send-email)
>
> These packages are in separate sub-packages in Fedora (and some
> other distributions) because they are no required by all users and
> they pull in dependencies which are not wanted on minimal installs.
> In Fedora, you can install git-all to get all the available git
> sub-packages.
not to belabour this (and i'm sure it's *way* too late for that),
but fedora has the following packaging scheme. first, there's a bunch
of stuff in "git-core", which has no dependencies on any other
git-related packages.
then there's "git", which has the following property:
$ rpm -qR git
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/perl
emacs-filesystem >= 25.3
git-core = 2.14.3-2.fc27
git-core-doc = 2.14.3-2.fc27
... snip ...
$ rpm -ql git
... snip ...
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-add--interactive
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-am
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-credential-libsecret
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-credential-netrc
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-difftool
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-difftool--helper
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-instaweb
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-request-pull
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-submodule
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-submodule--helper
... snip ...
/usr/share/man/man1/git-am.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/git-difftool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/git-instaweb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/git-request-pull.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/git-submodule.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gitweb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/gitweb.conf.5.gz
$
so with fedora, "git" drags in "git-core" and a small number of
additional git utilities. all of this leads one to wonder -- is there
any comprehensible relationship between:
1) commands that claim to be in the "git suite"
2) commands that come from contrib/
3) commands listed at
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
4) how different distros package all of the above
as i think we've noticed, it's not at all clear how git decides what
is and isn't part of the "official" git suite.
rday
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