Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:05:05AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> 
> > > But I don't see a point to removing the links entirely. The annoyance
> > > factor for people who want git-* is much higher, and I don't see that it
> > > actually buys us any help for new users (who will no longer care after
> > > everything is hidden in $(libexecdir) anyway).
> > 
> > Maybe only not install hardlinks on systems that do not support it
> > like Windows? git.exe duplication takes a lot of space.
> 
> I think that is totally reasonable, as on those platforms there is
> actually something to be gained from removing those hardlinks (you could
> also of course make a very thin wrapper for "git-foo" that called "git
> foo"; it would still be wasteful, but not as much as copying the whole
> git.exe. But that is not worth doing unless people on Windows really
> want the dash forms).