Re: [PATCH 2/6] Makefile: begin refactoring out "ln || ln -s || cp" pattern

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 29, 2021, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqwntpha9p.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <patch-2.7-5f59121dd0f-20210329T162327Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> Begin refactoring out the "ln || ln -s || cp" pattern in the Makefile
> into a script. For now this is trivial, but in subsequent commits
> it'll simplify things a lot.

I agree with the approach. The precedence glitch I commented on in my review of [1/6] (e.g. how would I say "I never ever want symbolic links---just use hardlink and fall back to copying") would be much easier to solve if a single helper is used consistenly---that would give us a single place to centrally fix.

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