Re: [PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:25:12AM CEST, I got a letter where Ryan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > Honestly, I think the biggest argument against the "-script" suffix is > related to man-page usage: It requires significant knowledge of the Git > project to figure out wha

Re: [PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Ryan Anderson
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 01:57:22AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ryan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > See, for example, the history on git-rename-script for why this is good. > > Why do you think it is a good example? What happens when next > time somebody rewrites it in C? Well, I

Re: [PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ryan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > See, for example, the history on git-rename-script for why this is good. > > Why do you think it is a good example? What happens when next > time somebody rewrites it in C? We'll call the C version "rena

Re: [PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ryan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See, for example, the history on git-rename-script for why this is good. Why do you think it is a good example? What happens when next time somebody rewrites it in C? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a m

Re: [PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts

2005-08-12 Thread Ryan Anderson
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 02:55:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Sure, I could have called it ".sh" instead to make it look even more like > a shell script thing, but I actually think "-script" describes any > scripting language - shell, perl, you name it.. See, for example, the history on g

Re: [PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts

2005-08-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I have never liked the original -script name convention. It > only meant that they are implemented as scripts (as opposed to > those on the $(PROG) Makefile variable), but the end users who > end up typing their names from the command line, and to

Re: [PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts

2005-08-12 Thread Johannes Schindelin
hI, On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For consistency reasons, the names of all scripts should end in "-script". > > > > This may be a bit controversial (people might find it unnecessary). > > Subject to discussion. > > I have ne

Re: [PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts

2005-08-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For consistency reasons, the names of all scripts should end in "-script". > > This may be a bit controversial (people might find it unnecessary). > Subject to discussion. I have never liked the original -script name convention. It only meant th

[PATCH] Use "-script" postfix for scripts

2005-08-12 Thread Johannes Schindelin
For consistency reasons, the names of all scripts should end in "-script". Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This may be a bit controversial (people might find it unnecessary). Subject to discussion. --- Makefile | 15 --- git-cherry-