Re: [PATCH 1/5] Makefile: drop builtins from MSVC pdb list

> While all four methods work, the only one that is regularly used with the
> `make install` command is the first one.
> 
> The location you modified is in the `MSVC` part of `compat.mak.uname`,
> i.e. in the Visual C part.
> 
> We originally had a tentative plan to eventually, maybe, build Git for
> Windows using Visual C by default. However, it turned out that the
> standard malloc in Visual C's runtime was tuned for other workloads than
> Gits, and that nedmalloc performed better, and we originally could not get
> nedmalloc to compile with a modern Visual C, so we stopped that effort.
> 
> That's why you still have support for `make MSVC=1 install`.
> 
> Since it seems not to be too much trouble, I would prefer to keep it
> working for now, even if it is rarely exercised and regressions might
> creep in (like the ones you fixed).