On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:17 AM, Jeff King wrote:
The only reason I have heard to remove them entirely is that Windows
doesn't properly support hardlinks, which I addressed in my other
mails
(and to which I have seen no rebuttal).
We don't have a problem with hardlinks for git-* commands in
msysgit. The msysgit installer already creates hardlinks if
installing on NTFS. On non-NTFS partitions, though, it needs
to copy the files.
Note, this doesn't mean we love hardlinks in msysgit. Actually,
msys does _not_ support them in its Unix emulation layer. So,
for daily work git does not have hardlinks. For examples, the
test script skip all hardlink related tests. The installer
handles hardlinks using the Windows API directly and not using
the Unix emulation layer.
We already have a setup that supports exporting only git and
gitk to the a Windows Command Prompt (not the bash that comes
with msysgit). If you choose this setup, a directory that
contains only these two commands will be added to the system
wide PATH. We use this indirection to hide all the the Unix
tools that are included in msysgit (and needed by git) from
the Windows Command Prompt.
Steffen
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