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

From: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Date: Jun 29, 2008, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID: <A87D312D-8B65-4D57-84AC-8FC07A27B937@ai.rug.nl>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5g89f34.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 29 jun 2008, at 22:11, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 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?

- Pieter

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