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SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS does not install git-*-pack

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Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>
Date
Oct 20, 2020, 01:27 UTC
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I saw that git 2.29.0 introduced a new make variable SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS. However, after testing it out I noticed that it skips installation of bin/git-receive-pack bin/git-upload-archive and bin/git-upload-pack as well.

There is a comment that says these commands are special and expected to be in the bin/ directory in dashed form, so unless I'm missing something, I believe this is unintended.

This seems to be the offending hunk: https://github.com/git/git/commit/94de88c986712e79c20813ba54e797c4ca83137b#diff-76ed074a9305c04054cdebb9e9aad2d818052b07091de1f20cad0bbac34ffb52L2979-R2993

Reverting that hunk restores git-receive-pack, git-upload-archive, and git-upload-pack (and only those).

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