Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

2018-02-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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

Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

2018-02-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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. The split in Fedora between git and

Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

2018-02-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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

Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

2018-02-07 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > huh ... well, that raises the question, if tla has been unbuildable > for that long (possibly for other distros), what is the value in > continuing to support git-archimport? > >

Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

2018-02-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > > finally, from fedora, i am utterly unable to find a package that > > provides git-archimport. pretty sure fedora used to have a > > "git-arch" package but it's not there now. > > It hasn't been in Fedora since

Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

2018-02-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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

Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

2018-02-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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

Re: categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

2018-02-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
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

categorization, documentation and packaging of "git core" commands

2018-02-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(related to earlier thread but different enough that i'll start fresh.) based on the collection of man page links here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ i took a look at how git 2.14.3 is laid out on my fedora 27 system, particularly all of the executables under