The dashed form of the built-ins is so passé. Incidentally, this also handles the .pdb issue in MSVC's install Makefile target that Peff pointed out in the context of the "slimming down" patch series [https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200813145719.GA891370@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/] . This addresses https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/406 Johannes Schindelin (3): msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Makefile | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------ ci/run-build-and-tests.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) base-commit: b6a658bd00c9c29e07f833cabfc0ef12224e277a Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-411%2Fdscho%2Foptionally-skip-dashed-built-ins-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-411/dscho/optionally-skip-dashed-built-ins-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/411 -- gitgitgadget