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Re: [PATCH 5/6] Add plan9/wrap.c

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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Aug 4, 2019, 00:03 UTC
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On 2019-08-03 at 23:52:12, lufia via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> From: lufia <lufia@lufia.org>
> 
> Plan 9 has bind(1) instead of ln(1), but bind isn't persisted to the disk.
> However it isn't efficient to copy git to git- subcommands such as git-add.
> Therefore Plan 9 needs wrap.c to switch behavior by executable name.

Does Plan 9 have symbolic links? The INSTALL_SYMLINKS option uses symlinks instead, which should avoid the need for hard links.

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Message 8 of 17 in “Port git to Plan 9”
  1. 0/6 Port git to Plan 9KADOTA, Kyohei via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2019
  2. 2/6 Fix C syntactic errors for the Plan 9 C compilerlufia via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2019
  3. 4/6 Port generate-cmdline.sh to rclufia via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2019
  4. 1/6 Change HOME, PATH, and .gitconfig paths to be customizablelufia via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2019
  5. 3/6 GIT-VERSION-GEN: Use sed instead of exprlufia via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2019
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2019
  7. 5/6 Add plan9/wrap.clufia via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2019
  8. brian m. carlsonAug 4, 2019
  9. Kyohei KadotaAug 4, 2019
  10. 6/6 Add mkfile to build git and subcommands for Plan 9lufia via GitGitGadget, Aug 3, 2019
  11. brian m. carlsonAug 4, 2019
  12. Kyohei KadotaAug 4, 2019
  13. Jonathan NiederAug 4, 2019
  14. 0/3 Port git to Plan 9KADOTA, Kyohei via GitGitGadget, Aug 27, 2019
  15. 1/3 Change HOME, PATH, and .gitconfig paths to be customizablelufia via GitGitGadget, Aug 27, 2019
  16. 2/3 Fix C syntactic errors for the Plan 9 C compilerlufia via GitGitGadget, Aug 27, 2019
  17. 3/3 Support Plan 9 dialectlufia via GitGitGadget, Aug 27, 2019

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