I don't see the point [LWN.net]

I don't see the point

Posted Sep 4, 2008 8:55 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: I don't see the point by dh
Parent article: Feature removal sparks Git flamewar

The moving-into-one-executable stuff has been happening for ages and is
not disrupted by having lots of names. All that happens is those names
become symlinks to /usr/bin/git, which is sensitive to argv[0].

(Besides, there are *still* lots of names: they're just in a different
place now, out of the default $PATH.)

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