This is another tidbit from the stash of Git for Windows' patches: it avoids loading the function address of CreateHardLink() at runtime. This was done in case we were running on a Windows version that does not support that function, but we no longer support any of these Windows versions. Johannes Schindelin (1): mingw: use `CreateHardLink()` directly compat/mingw.c | 14 +------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-) base-commit: 8858448bb49332d353febc078ce4a3abcc962efe Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-77%2Fdscho%2Fmingw-CreateHardLink-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-77/dscho/mingw-CreateHardLink-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/77 -- gitgitgadget