Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:05:05AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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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