[PATCH] UBUNTU: Use 'git foo' rather than 'git-foo'

[Tim Gardner]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:16:21PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> The git-core package in Jaunty (as of 1:1.6.0-1) no longer provides
>> git-foo commands in the default $PATH. Quoting
>> /usr/share/doc/git-core/NEWS.Debian.gz:
>>
>> git-core (1:1.6.0-1) experimental; urgency=low
>>
>>   Most of the programs are now installed outside the default $PATH,
>>   except for "git", "gitk" and some server side programs that need
>>   to be accessible for technical reasons.  Invoking a git subcommand
>>   as "git-xyzzy" from the command line has been deprecated since
>>   early 2006 (and officially announced in the 1.5.4 release notes);
>>   using the "git-xyzzy" form in scripts after adding the output from
>>   "git --exec-path" to the $PATH is still supported in this release,
>>   but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their scripts to
>>   use the "git xyzzy" form, as this support might be dropped in later
>>   releases.
>>
>>  -- Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>  Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:31:44 +0000
>>
>> This modifies a few stray scripts that still used the old git-foo form.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com>
> 
> This has been mentioned loudly and often on the git list, and this is
> definatly the correct thing to do.  I can see no other references to this
> form in our stuff.
> 
> ACK
> 
> -apw
> 

Except for
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-jaunty.git;a=commit;h=e4f65f4a323f7e02d348e57807b54965b2fd2b4b

Hardy/Intrepid have the same git syntax, but it will only be a problem
if git-core is backported.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com