Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Jun 29, 2008, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <A7BB2A8B-DBDB-477C-9A91-BADCCB6154FC@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <A87D312D-8B65-4D57-84AC-8FC07A27B937@ai.rug.nl>

On Jun 29, 2008, at 10:15 PM, Pieter de Bie wrote:

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> On 29 jun 2008, at 22:11, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> use of them from your scripts after adding
>>  output from "git --exec-path" to the $PATH will still be supported  
>> in
>>  1.6.0, but users are again strongly encouraged to adjust their
>>  scripts to use "git xyzzy" form, as we will stop installing
>>  "git-xyzzy" hardlinks for built-in commands in later releases.
>
> I think msysgit doesn't (didn't?) install the hardlinks to conserve  
> space,
> as Windows doesn't support hard links. Perhaps we should mention that
> as well?

Windows does support hardlinks and msysgit uses them.

	Steffen

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