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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop some dashes from built-in invocations in scripts
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 00:15:46 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1708060012080.4271@virtualbox> (raw)
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

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-05 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-05  6:49 [PATCH] Drop some dashes from built-in invocations in scripts Michael Forney
2017-08-05 22:15 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2017-08-05 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-05 22:54   ` Michael Forney
2017-08-05 23:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-06  5:35       ` Michael Forney
2017-08-07  1:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-05 23:30   ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-08-07 16:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-07 17:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-07 17:58     ` Michael Forney
2017-08-07 18:18       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-07 19:22   ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-08-07 19:48     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-07 21:07   ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-08-07 21:47     ` Junio C Hamano

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