From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:15:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop some dashes from built-in invocations in scripts
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1708060012080.4271@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20170805064905.5948-1-mforney@mforney.org>

Hi Michael,

On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Michael Forney wrote:

> 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