From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 17:01:49 GMT
Subject: RE: [GSoC] My Git Dev Blog — Week 6
Message-ID: <60d8aefdb7f1a_ba9f3208ca@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <4E38928E-A98D-4F57-8866-8A237B31DDE0@gmail.com>

Atharva Raykar wrote:

>   * Reflections:
>     - How does Git even start?
>       (https://atharvaraykar.me/gitnotes/week6#how-does-git-even-start)
>       This was just something I was curious about, not really important
>       to my project. If anyone knows the answer to what I asked in that,
>       section, it would be nice to know!

They are not all linked together.

Take for example shell.c, which will be used to generate shell.o, which
is used here:

  PROGRAM_OBJS += shell.o

PROGRAM_OBJS is used here:

  PROGRAMS += $(patsubst %.o,git-%$X,$(PROGRAM_OBJS))

This means shell.o will be used to generate a program called git-shell.

But the "git" program will not use PROGRAM_OBJS, therefore it will not
link shell.o.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras