Hi Duy, On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote: > 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) ? I would hope so. As I said before: the fact that Git started out with everything as dashed subcommands is an implementation detail that unfortunately leaked into many parts of Git's UI. We can fix this. > 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. I think that makes a *ton* of sense. Let's get to work after v2.17.0? (Same for your excellent work on t/helper/test-tool) Ciao, Dscho
