From: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:15:00 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
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:

> 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