From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:14:10 -0500 Message-ID: <20071129211409.GA16625@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20071127150229.GA14859@laptop> <20071127160423.GA22807@laptop> <20071128000731.GD9174@efreet.light.src> <7v8x4jb295.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vfxyq2c9b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071129150849.GA32296@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jan Hudec , Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 29 22:14:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxqiP-0005Zr-EE for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:14:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932176AbXK2VOO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:14:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756775AbXK2VOO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:14:14 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:2283 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756222AbXK2VON (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:14:13 -0500 Received: (qmail 29354 invoked by uid 111); 29 Nov 2007 21:14:11 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:14:11 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:14:10 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:05:05AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > > But I don't see a point to removing the links entirely. The annoyance > > factor for people who want git-* is much higher, and I don't see that it > > actually buys us any help for new users (who will no longer care after > > everything is hidden in $(libexecdir) anyway). > > Maybe only not install hardlinks on systems that do not support it > like Windows? git.exe duplication takes a lot of space. I think that is totally reasonable, as on those platforms there is actually something to be gained from removing those hardlinks (you could also of course make a very thin wrapper for "git-foo" that called "git foo"; it would still be wasteful, but not as much as copying the whole git.exe. But that is not worth doing unless people on Windows really want the dash forms). -Peff