Hi Ævar,

On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>  * GIT_TEST_INSTALLED breaks entirely under this, as early as the
>    heuristic for "are we built?" being "do we have git-init in
>    libexecdir?". I tried a bit to make this work, but there's a lot of
>    dependencies there.

I have a couple of patches in the pipeline to improve
`GIT_TEST_INSTALLED`, as I needed it to work without hardlinked copies of
the built-ins. These patches might help this here isue.

>  * We still (and this is also true of my ad874608d8) hardlink
>    everything in the build dir via a different part of the Makefile,
>    ideally we should do exactly the same thing there so also normal
>    tests and not just GIT_TEST_INSTALLED (if that worked) would test
>    in the same mode.
> 
>    I gave making that work a bit of a try and gave up in the Makefile
>    jungle.

Yep.

Ciao,
Dscho