Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:52:52AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > 4. Replace the rename "gitfoo" above with a "see git-foo..." pointer. >> > Users of "git help foo" would not ever see this, but people who >> > have trained their fingers to type "man gitfoo" would, along with >> > anybody following an outdated HTML link. >> > >> > 5. Update internal references to "linkgit:gitfoo" to point to >> > "git-foo". >> > >> > Hmm. That really does not seem so bad. The biggest downside is the >> > people who have to see the redirect made in step 4. >> >> Yeah, I see that a show-stopper in the whole sequence. >> >> This is one of the "if we had perfect knowledge we would have >> designed it this way, and we could still migrate our current system >> to that ideal, but it is dubious the difference between the current >> system and the ideal will outweigh the cost of migration" moment, >> isn't it? > > Yeah, perhaps. I did the patch series just to see what the effort would > be like. But at this point I am fine if we drop it (it sounded like > Jonathan was in favor of this direction, so maybe he wants to make a > final argument).
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