From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:21:58 GMT Subject: Re: a few remaining issues... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701050327u6bf2a716s1fb38fb62e2ebb9d@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: > On 1/5/07, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, and I probably will > > change my mind after I sleep on them, but before I go to bed, > > here are a handful of glitches I think are worth fixing. > > Maybe we should at least mention another cygwin quirk: > cygwin (or is it its bash?) treats .exe files and +x-files without > extension somehow stupid: it prefers the file without extension > to the .exe. For example, after installation of git-merge-recursive > you have the old python script and git-merge-recursive.exe in > the same directory. Guess which one is used... Right, the old > python script. Same for count-objects and other recently > rewritten scripts. I just sent out a patch in my mail "[PATCH] Makefile: add clean-obsolete-scripts target" which should help. It might be necessary (under obscure circumstances) to remake all and make clean-obsolete-scripts again, to remove the correct files. But in general, it should be fine to be called just once. Ciao, Dscho