clone 687391 -1 retitle 687391 /usr/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/* should be executable severity -1 wishlist tags -1 + wontfix quit
Hi, Greg Price wrote: > retitle 687391 git: executables in contrib/ should be executable > quit > > I just ran into this same issue with contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg, > where all the same reasoning applies as for the contrib hooks. > > There are a lot of files in contrib/. Many of them (about 60) are > marked executable in git.git upstream. Probably all of the files > marked executable upstream should be installed as executable in > /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/ and /usr/share/git-core/contrib/, > including the hooks and the remote-helpers. Thanks for this clarification. It's a common request, so it's good to have a place to point interested people to. You may be surprised to hear that I think this would be a bad change. When there is interest in scripts under /usr/share/doc/git being executable, that is a sign that that script should be moved out of the documentation directory and into a more permanent location. That way, we can retain a little leeway to compress or reorganize documentation when that seems useful, and people on space-constrained systems that leave out /usr/share/doc will not be missing any functionality. A separate question is whether contrib/ should be under /usr/share/doc at all. It might make sense to move more of at least the more mature parts of contrib/ under /usr/share/git-core. Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
