[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Richard Kettlewell]

druck <news at druck.org.uk> writes:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> Source management is usually handled by one single program, even on
>> most systems today. Be that cvs, svn, git or whatever.
>
> git is actually a collection of programs, when you run
>
>     git command args
>
> it actually runs
>
>     git-command args

Might have been once, but not any more.

$ strace -etrace=execve -f  git clone whatever
execve("/usr/bin/git", ["git", "clone", "whatever"], 0x7fffeebfa9e0 /* 54 vars */) = 0
fatal: repository 'whatever' does not exist
+++ exited with 128 +++

> You can even write your own git utilities, call them git-something and
> put them on PATH, and they will run when you do
>
>     git something

I think that remains true.

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