clone 687391 -1
retitle 687391 /usr/share/git-core/contrib/hooks/* should be executable
severity -1 wishlist
tags -1 + wontfix
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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
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