[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#985775: Bug#985775: git-absorb: Git does not recognize absorb as a git command

[Tomas Janousek]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 02:51:20AM +0000, peter green wrote:
>Git changed the gitexecdir directory. Said change is currently blocked from
>migrating to testing by bug 985416 which was cloned from bug 985351, ongoing
>discussion of the issue seems to be in bug 985351.
>
>Given where we are in the release process, that there still seems to be ongoing
>discussion on the git side as to how best to deal with this issue and that this
>doesn't currently affect bullseye, I think we should probably wait for a direct
>request from the git maintainers before changing anything on the git-absorb side.

I'll just note that the current state in Debian testing is that "git 
absorb" works but git's bash completion doesn't suggest absorb. It does 
suggest every git-something in $PATH, but stuff in /usr/lib/git-core 
seems to be handled specially (see for example 
https://github.com/git/git/commit/6532f3740b1c228c0a2a03a4126f4f7e4f2d73e7: 
apparently the commands in git-core are categorized and one can 
configure which categories of commands should be autocompleted).

I believe this is another argument for installing git-absorb into 
/usr/bin.

-- 
Tomáš "liskin" ("Pivník") Janoušek, https://work.lisk.in/
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