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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 30, 2007, 15:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20071130150948.GA22095@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <474FB938.3040209@op5.se>

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:18:16AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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>> The only reason I have heard to remove them entirely is that Windows
>> doesn't properly support hardlinks, which I addressed in my other mails
>> (and to which I have seen no rebuttal).
>>
> It would provide a ui inconsistency between platforms. Several people
> pointed that out. It's decidedly a Bad Thing.

Which, as I said, I have already addressed (and which Linus has also expanded upon in this thread). Since those hardlinks would be hidden from users who did not go to some trouble to find them, there will not be inconsistency problems. Scripts will have to either go to some effort to change their PATH, or simply use the correct form, and I expect them to do the latter.

-Peff