From: Duy Nguyen Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:29:04 GMT Subject: Re: Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > To add some interesting information to this: in MinGit (the light-weight > "Git for applications" we bundle to avoid adding a hefty 230MB to any > application that wants to bundle Git for Windows), we simply ignored that > old promise. We do support hooks written as Unix shell scripts in MinGit, > and we have not had a single report since offering MinGit with v2.9.2 on > July 16th, 2016, that it broke anybody's scripts, so it seems that users > are more sensible than our promises ;-) That's very good to hear. Perhaps we could slowly move away from symlinking (or even hard linking) these builtin commands (with a couple exception like receive-pack and stuff) ? We don't have to do it right now but we can start announcing that we will drop it in maybe 2 or 3 releases. We do provide a new make target to recreate these links so that packagers can make a "compat" package that contains just these links if they want to. But by default a git package will have no links. -- Duy