Re: Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git?

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> To add some interesting information to this: in MinGit (the light-weight
> "Git for applications" we bundle to avoid adding a hefty 230MB to any
> application that wants to bundle Git for Windows), we simply ignored that
> old promise. We do support hooks written as Unix shell scripts in MinGit,
> and we have not had a single report since offering MinGit with v2.9.2 on
> July 16th, 2016, that it broke anybody's scripts, so it seems that users
> are more sensible than our promises ;-)

That's very good to hear. Perhaps we could slowly move away from
symlinking (or even hard linking) these builtin commands (with a
couple exception like receive-pack and stuff) ? We don't have to do it
right now but we can start announcing that we will drop it in maybe 2
or 3 releases. We do provide a new make target to recreate these links
so that packagers can make a "compat" package that contains just these
links if they want to. But by default a git package will have no
links.
-- 
Duy



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