On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:11:50AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Hi,
Ryan Anderson:
#!/bin/sh
echo Don't get a git - use gt!
Ouch.
:) I meant it as a joke, obviously. I also thinkoed the sentence I was
aiming for, thus losing the humor. Oh well.
echo Don't get a git
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:35:55PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
David Lang:
after so many years of software development (and with the policy of never
having conflicting command names) what three letter combinations are still
avilable?
Lots.
I'm assuming that the much smaller
Hi,
Ryan Anderson:
#!/bin/sh
echo Don't get a git - use gt!
Ouch.
echo Don't get a git - use gt! 2
if at all.
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Debian folks on the list: We had to make this ugly hack in
our Debianization because Debian heavyweights did not like
to see Conflicts: and us lowly new maintainers needed to
obey their wishes.
Linus: The alleged name clash appears to be a Debian
specific problem. No
On Thursday 11 August 2005 23:53, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Hands up people. Does anybody _use_ GNU interactive tools? None of this I
have a package crap.
http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst
#Format
#
#name is the package name;
#inst is the number of people who installed this package;
#vote is the
Hi, Alan Chandler wrote:
Not sure I understand the proper use of dpkg-divert in Debian, but could
_this_ git-core package perhaps ask the user which set of the two
packages he wish to keep as git command and use dpkg-divert to change
the other to another name to some other name?
IIRC,
Hi,
David Lang:
after so many years of software development (and with the policy of never
having conflicting command names) what three letter combinations are still
avilable?
Lots.
I'm assuming that the much smaller pool of two letter commands was long
since exhausted, but if not what
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Split gitk off to its own package;
it needs tk installed, but nothing else does.
I just noticed from dpkg --info output that the generated
git-tk has Architecture: i386. Shouldn't it read all and
resulting package also named
Hi, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid people,
and I bet not just Debian people.
Possibly. But the number of people running both git and git are, I'd bet,
smaller than those who will send annoying emails when they install git and
can't
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid people,
and I bet not just Debian people.
Why do you say that?
Do you have anybody who actually does, or are you just claiming so?
Some distributions seems to disagree with you.
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid people,
and I bet not just Debian people.
Why do you say that?
Do you have anybody who actually does, or are you just claiming so?
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid people,
and I bet not just Debian people.
Why do you say that?
Do you have anybody who actually does, or are you just claiming so?
Anyway, enough of this. I understand the name will not change and I'm
ok with that. I'll deal with it on our (Debian's) end.
The easy fix is to kill the small git script that is not
mandatory anyway (as far as my quick grep told me).
The cg script has a bit more value.
Sam
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Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, enough of this. I understand the name will not change and I'm
ok with that. I'll deal with it on our (Debian's) end.
The easy fix is to kill the small git script that is not
mandatory anyway (as far as my quick grep told me).
The cg
Hi,
Sam Ravnborg:
Anyway, enough of this. I understand the name will not change and I'm
ok with that. I'll deal with it on our (Debian's) end.
The easy fix is to kill the small git script that is not
mandatory anyway (as far as my quick grep told me).
I'd vote to keep the scripts in
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:24:10PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Hi,
Sam Ravnborg:
Anyway, enough of this. I understand the name will not change and I'm
ok with that. I'll deal with it on our (Debian's) end.
The easy fix is to kill the small git script that is not
mandatory
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another possible solution: Rename git's git to X and install ours as Y.
Ask the user which should be symlinked to /usr/bin/git, if both are
installed, via the existing alternatives system.
I suggested this on debian-devel, and was told that
On Thursday 11 August 2005 15:11, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid
people, and I bet not just Debian people.
Why do you say that?
Do you have anybody
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
What I have is bug reports against the cogito package, from people who
want to install both. The reports came very soon after I released the
package, so I dont think it's a totally freak occurance.
The point is, people have the thing
Matthias Urlichs wrote:
A small Debian-specific patch to rename the offending scripts (and drop
the Conflicts: entries) is cheap.
Not sure I understand the proper use of dpkg-divert in Debian, but could
_this_ git-core package perhaps ask the user which set of the two
packages he wish to
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthias Urlichs wrote:
A small Debian-specific patch to rename the offending scripts (and drop
the Conflicts: entries) is cheap.
Not sure I understand the proper use of dpkg-divert in Debian, but could
_this_ git-core package perhaps ask the user
Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
rank nameinstvote old recent
6591 git 114 24 83 7
2 git-core 2 1 0 1 (Not in sid)
29939 cogito-scm 1 0 1 0 (Not in sid)
This obviously
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:20 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hands up people. Does anybody _use_ GNU interactive tools? None of this I
have a package crap.
Obviously no one on the git list uses GNU Interactive Tools, or this
problem would have
Hi,
Linus Torvalds:
Hands up people. Does anybody _use_ GNU interactive tools? None of this I
have a package crap.
You're preaching to the converted here.
The Debian-package-for-Debian could pop up a notice asking the user to
symlink /usr/local/bin/git = /usr/bin/gitscm (or whatever) if
Debian packaging fixes for 0.99.4:
- Add a debian/changelog entry.
- Split gitk off to its own package;
it needs tk installed, but nothing else does.
- Refer to GPL properly, don't install COPYING.
- Fix maintainer.
- Use dh_movefiles instead of dh_install;
we don't want to list everything
On 8/11/05, Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debian packaging fixes for 0.99.4:
Is this anywhere in the archive?
cheers,
martin
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Hi,
Martin Langhoff:
On 8/11/05, Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debian packaging fixes for 0.99.4:
Is this anywhere in the archive?
Cogito 0.12.1 (which includes git) has been packaged by Sebastian
Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]; it's in Debian Unstable. I assume
he'll do
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cogito 0.12.1 (which includes git) has been packaged by Sebastian
Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]; it's in Debian Unstable. I assume
he'll do something about packaging the current version; I just filed a
wishlist bug in Debian.
The current cogito
Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/11/05, Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree completely - it's super bogus to rename the two central programs.
It makes Debian essentially incompatible with the rest of the world.
Well, I doubt this problem lies with Debian. GNU
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The top man-page I found for GNU interactive tools says:
A Set of Interactive Programs
Edition 2.5, for GIT version 4.3.16
January 1997
just let it die in peace.
The top of the RCS changelog says:
Fri Jun 16 06:19:24 1995
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