From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:14:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir Message-ID: <20071129211409.GA16625@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:05:05AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > > 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