Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:
Change the INSTALL_SYMLINKS flag to also affect whether a built-in
like e.g. git-fetch is a symlink or not in git's build directory.
This doesn't matter for anything other than as an aid to developers
who might be confused about their build not matching the installation,
and who'd like to be reminded that e.g. "git-fetch" is a built-in by
"ls" coloring appropriately it as a symlink.
I am not with the cause and hence not very interested in this
"feature".
When there are multiple possible reasons why something is made into
a symbolic link, the symlink-ness in the build directory cannot
fundamentally mirror the symlink-ness in the installation, no?
"git" and "git-fetch" may be in the same directory in the build, but
their installation directories are different, so they may be
hardlinked in the former but they may be turned into symlinks in the
latter.
On Tue, Mar 30 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
Change the INSTALL_SYMLINKS flag to also affect whether a built-in
like e.g. git-fetch is a symlink or not in git's build directory.
This doesn't matter for anything other than as an aid to developers
who might be confused about their build not matching the installation,
and who'd like to be reminded that e.g. "git-fetch" is a built-in by
"ls" coloring appropriately it as a symlink.
I am not with the cause and hence not very interested in this
"feature".
When there are multiple possible reasons why something is made into
a symbolic link, the symlink-ness in the build directory cannot
fundamentally mirror the symlink-ness in the installation, no?
"git" and "git-fetch" may be in the same directory in the build, but
their installation directories are different, so they may be
hardlinked in the former but they may be turned into symlinks in the
latter.
This won't be the case after 6/6 in INSTALL_FALLBACK_LN_CP. I'll make
some note of it here.
In practice I think this fallback mode is useful to almost nobody, so
being able to have the build directory mirror the install for
development purposes makes things much more obvious.