Re: What's in git.git

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 11, 2006, 13:50 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604110645060.3722@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bgk7mhy.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>
>       Retire git-log.sh
>       Retire git-log.sh (take#2)

I think you need a (take#3).

This creates "git-log" as a link to "git", but does so at _build_ time, not install time.

Which means that when it actually gets installed, it gets installed as a copy of that link, and you get two different executables instead of one single executable that is just linked to two names:

  [torvalds@g5 git]$ ls -li /home/torvalds/bin/git ~/bin/git-log
  67272830 -rwxr-xr-x 1 torvalds torvalds 333613 Apr 11 06:45 /home/torvalds/bin/git
  67272781 -rwxr-xr-x 1 torvalds torvalds 333613 Apr 11 06:45 /home/torvalds/bin/git-log

so it _works_, but it wastes 300kB+ for each "builtin". Which was kind of against the whole point.

I think the builtins should be a install-time only issue.

		Linus