From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2B81F404 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751996AbeCORGG (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:06:06 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:49063 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751571AbeCORGF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:06:05 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.129] ([37.201.195.115]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LcFTN-1eFiiL0pin-00jZ5E; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:05:52 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:05:38 +0100 (STD) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@MININT-6BKU6QN.europe.corp.microsoft.com To: Linus Torvalds cc: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=86var_Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0_Bjarmason?= , Johannes Sixt , Git Mailing List , Junio C Hamano , Daniel Jacques , Steffen Prohaska , John Keeping , Stan Hu , Richard Clamp Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Makefile: optionally symlink libexec/git-core binaries to bin/git In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20180313203935.5084-1-avarab@gmail.com> <20180313203935.5084-4-avarab@gmail.com> <1cabf9c0-674e-c2b3-9977-9c74b929a86d@kdbg.org> <87y3ivdkvp.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323329-1316840730-1521133554=:64" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:53LvDV8s8Rqp8atJmp/WcNwZiS6+soGXDkhhrWMMKRwqJfasAgw oljaR4dLyCK02qdR8fsAMHdQBFv4X2jq+z5ROEEMmJ5QAdAvi2s65Kc/3pjcbX5PPLIMbes KYl0MIQLaumVHwC8mvKrV8spSOJMQNpG56UrqZgsz+op0gBfFpsT2la2SnNkb7s7QFS5vhK gV5IKV+nBf6W8SN1WTOZg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:4Wiagp9LMvs=:b1JLtVUZPGKy3elccBwAkP L4oScAnpg0huGj1EbEGvHpIjrYcIAVtLe7HRY/xFCgIQzgjASFOs/EArncbPI2aFQv1uFNdT+ 3dnT+eWSboyJyCAMSJRxQJw8CVq8r8n9aMkJyw686ljfGCIFcdxmeMBlxNi1ueUvIdaRv7PO0 GqSXaM8kAiOzJ38LJjA6v6q6mzoPbmFDL9pe1HH1JuFjUMSZHWeYa2MLEYTQwTp4kSRXuDlC+ lvVvOUFtlFO13DqeA01u5lwnuwzLDMm8bou+n2dgqUYx1ZEp4224IphG1CMuhl7KQZwvQqF43 mJFDwaB7xr7MpQLBpH8X69phojuf226wTYsMtCyfAjsat/KDrUwhyE0Q/QRVdJuRueLtnX+qy q/rcngHdPJUIPN0yVpRuSv3ScrKX4cprI8Hp7WlOv0ScC5yN//LKojOfgCA+rP9PVw3S0wboz Lk+Hf7EmQrZhN+cpHvsyKCDDARpCHIqaUnAsm7dJ2tQhmyP5Y6j+OFbQXgC1GEWkBTYk4hC4f EZmRcPGG0II0A8a0yc/y/3fyRuCdW41IMlzmuEGxpyKzADFzsPjYi2yLGusqh5e4RRiBfdVwa ZkpzaApT0GGRM4BpU2JDEeyiELBisEN5g1MmYVurAXiMrXjV/Znb49HZJwWPF9H77Qa3RcJ/M E1bQlbR4e+Z9SaOe6S03IrhteaqbRyg1QXGFgmY8WqHbyd+tjH9r6XqWYNai4PZPun2oQ4O4e tO1nLH26A4tTsuwErcgE36FJczPeWV6SXyXAovin9p3glqBgPPFpCvzVGgUw1/pHSclgVvmhx UHMz9GqE1NvsViSqouJhOJZW4jkw1CllnuKoB3J+pp2ACGJ+y0= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323329-1316840730-1521133554=:64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Hi Linus, On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:14 AM, =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14 2018, Johannes Sixt jotted: > >> > >> It is important to leave the default at hard-linking the binaries, > >> because on Windows symbolic links are second class citizens (they > >> require special privileges and there is a distinction between link > >> targets being files or directories). Hard links work well. > > > > Yeah makes sense. I just want to add this as an option, and think if > > it's proven to be un-buggy we could probably turn it on by default on > > the *nix's if people prefer that, but yeah, we'll definitely need the > > uname detection. >=20 > I definitely would prefer to make symlinks the default on unix. >=20 > It's what we used to do (long long ago), and as you pointed out, it's > a lot clearer what's going on too when you don't have to look at inode > numbers and link counts. >=20 > Forcing hardlinking everywhere by default just because Windows > filesystems suck donkey ass through a straw is not the right thing > either. The most sensible thing, of course, would be to *not* link the builtins at all. I mean, we deprecated the dashed form (which was a design mistake, whether you admit it or not) a long time ago. Ciao, Johannes --8323329-1316840730-1521133554=:64--