From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 22:20:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] Makefile: begin refactoring out "ln || ln -s || cp" pattern
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.