Re: conversion to git

[Bob Proulx]

Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> You don't HAVE to install all 132 git-* commands.  just plain "git" is
> just hardlinked to all those different names.  If you're happy to
> ditch the git file manager, you can just intall 'git' and access its
> subcommands as "git log" / "git pull" / etc. instead of "git-log" /
> "git-pull" / etc.

Hmm...  well...  No.  Actually git is a script that turns around and
calls those git-* names.  Internally the scripts call each other
through the full long git-* (e.g. git-rev-list) names.  But they don't
need to be in /usr/bin and could be installed in a subdirectory
somewhere else in the filesystem.  The git wrapper could even
automatically add that to PATH and then only the short git name would
cluttering up the namespace.

But...  All of the man pages are available through the long names and
need to be available.  Simply getting a man of 'man git' gives the
command overview and synopsis.  But for the man page for 'git clone'
'man git-clone' is needed so all of the names need to be installed in
order to have man page documentation.

Bob