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

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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).

Note that one big problem with a few platforms having dash forms and 
others not is that you _will_ get scripts and aliases that do not work 
everywhere.

Consistency is good.

Ciao,
Dscho