Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 29, 2007, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20071129211409.GA16625@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0711291205h125dadbbp8e8ae392e9b5b751@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:05:05AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> > But I don't see a point to removing the links entirely. The annoyance
> > factor for people who want git-* is much higher, and I don't see that it
> > actually buys us any help for new users (who will no longer care after
> > everything is hidden in $(libexecdir) anyway).
> 
> Maybe only not install hardlinks on systems that do not support it
> like Windows? git.exe duplication takes a lot of space.

I think that is totally reasonable, as on those platforms there is actually something to be gained from removing those hardlinks (you could also of course make a very thin wrapper for "git-foo" that called "git foo"; it would still be wasteful, but not as much as copying the whole git.exe. But that is not worth doing unless people on Windows really want the dash forms).

-Peff