Hi Gábor, On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:56:52AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > > From: Johannes Schindelin > > > > Originally, all of Git's subcommands were implemented in their own > > executable/script, using the naming scheme `git-`. When > > more and more functionality was turned into built-in commands (i.e. the > > `git` executable could run them without spawning a separate process), > > for backwards-compatibility, we hard-link the `git` executable to > > `git-` for every built-in. > > > > This backwards-compatibility was needed to support scripts that called > > the dashed form, even if we deprecated that a _long_ time ago. > > > > For that reason, we just introduced a Makefile knob to skip linking > > them. To make sure that this keeps working, teach the CI > > (and PR) builds to skip generating those hard-links. > > > > This is actually not such a big change: e4597aae6590 (run test suite > > without dashed git-commands in PATH, 2009-12-02) made sure that our test > > suite does not require dashed commands. With this Makefile knob, the > > commitment is just a little stronger (running tests with `--with-dashes` > > would _still_ not see the dashed form of the built-ins). > > > > There is a subtle change in behavior with this patch, though: as we no > > longer even _build_ the dashed executables, running the test suite would > > fail if any of Git's scripted commands (e.g. `git-request-pull`) still > > This would have succeeded previously (and would have been unintentional, > > of course) because `bin-wrappers/git` sets `GIT_EXEC_PATH` to the > > top-level directory (which would still have contained, say, > > `git-rev-parse`). > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin > > --- > > ci/run-build-and-tests.sh | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/ci/run-build-and-tests.sh b/ci/run-build-and-tests.sh > > index 6c27b886b8..1df9402c3b 100755 > > --- a/ci/run-build-and-tests.sh > > +++ b/ci/run-build-and-tests.sh > > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ windows*) cmd //c mklink //j t\\.prove "$(cygpath -aw "$cache_dir/.prove")";; > > *) ln -s "$cache_dir/.prove" t/.prove;; > > esac > > > > -make > > +make SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS=YesPlease > > Please make sure that this Makefile knob is set in all jobs building > and testing Git, or justify in the commit message why it isn't. The intention was to set it in all jobs (but the jury, AKA Junio, is still out on that). Did I not do that? Ciao, Dscho > > > case "$jobname" in > > linux-gcc) > > make test > > -- > > gitgitgadget >