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Re: [PATCH] Drop some dashes from built-in invocations in scripts

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 5, 2017, 22:15 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1708060012080.4271@virtualbox>
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<20170805064905.5948-1-mforney@mforney.org>
Hi Michael,
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Michael Forney wrote:
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> This way, they still work even if the built-in symlinks aren't
> installed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>
> ---
> It looks like there was an effort to do this a number of years ago (through
> `make remove-dashes`). These are just a few I noticed were still left in the
> .sh scripts.

I am very much in favor of this patch. It also helps with things like building Git in Visual Studio (where hard-linking builtins is not part of the process).

See also https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/compare/2006e3973ce6%5E...2006e3973ce6%5E2

Thanks, Johannes

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  1. Drop some dashes from built-in invocations in scriptsMichael Forney, Aug 5, 2017
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 5, 2017
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2017
  4. Michael ForneyAug 5, 2017
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2017
  6. Michael ForneyAug 6, 2017
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  8. Johannes SchindelinAug 5, 2017
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  11. Michael ForneyAug 7, 2017
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