Hi, On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:05:05AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > > > > But I don't see a point to removing the links entirely. The annoyance > > > factor for people who want git-* is much higher, and I don't see that it > > > actually buys us any help for new users (who will no longer care after > > > everything is hidden in $(libexecdir) anyway). > > > > Maybe only not install hardlinks on systems that do not support it > > like Windows? git.exe duplication takes a lot of space. > > I think that is totally reasonable, as on those platforms there is > actually something to be gained from removing those hardlinks (you could > also of course make a very thin wrapper for "git-foo" that called "git > foo"; it would still be wasteful, but not as much as copying the whole > git.exe. But that is not worth doing unless people on Windows really > want the dash forms). Note that one big problem with a few platforms having dash forms and others not is that you _will_ get scripts and aliases that do not work everywhere. Consistency is good. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
