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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:02:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmu2j50kk.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <166bd0d8fb699132569aff855de59c7607581adf.1598283480.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget's message of "Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:37:59 +0000")

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> While Git still supports the dashed form (by hard-linking the `git`
> executable to the dashed name in `libexec/git-core/`), in practice, it
> is probably almost irrelevant.

It is irrelevant when you have to say "probably" without facts, and
this paragraph is not necessary to justify this option.  I'd omit it.

We do care about keeping people's scripts working (even if they were
written before Windows folks started using Git---those people who
started using Git before that still exist ;-).

> In fact, some platforms (such as Windows) only started gaining
> meaningful Git support _after_ the dashed form was deprecated, and
> therefore one would expect that all this hard-linking is unnecessary on
> those platforms.
> 
> In addition to that, some programs that are regularly used to assess
> disk usage fail to realize that those are hard-links, and heavily
> overcount disk usage. Most notably, this was the case with Windows
> Explorer up until the last couple of Windows 10 versions.

However, the above two paragraphs I would suggest to keep, as they
do matter---it is a good justification to have this configurable.
Windows folks won't be able to copy and use POSIX shell scripts
written by folks before the Windows port of Git was started to
become widely used anyway.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-24 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-17  9:07 [PATCH 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17  4:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 18:02   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 12:47     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-24 18:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-25  8:07         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-25 16:03           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-17  9:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17  9:24   ` Jeff King
2020-08-17  5:51     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 21:37       ` Jeff King
2020-08-18  6:17         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17  9:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 18:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 14:58     ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17  9:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-17 18:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 15:37 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 15:37   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 15:37   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 19:02     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-08-25  8:20       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-24 15:38   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-24 19:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-25  8:30       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-25 13:47     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-08-25 15:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26  4:19         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-26 16:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 16:24             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-02  7:06             ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-02 20:50               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-27  8:30           ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-08-24 18:55   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Junio C Hamano
2020-08-24 19:03     ` Jeff King
2020-08-24 19:51       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 11:56   ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 11:56     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 11:56     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-08-26 16:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-26 11:56     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-03 10:45       ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-09-08 11:32         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-08 11:48           ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-09-08 17:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-21 22:28     ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:28       ` [PATCH v4 1/3] msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:28       ` [PATCH v4 2/3] Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:28       ` [PATCH v4 3/3] ci: stop linking built-ins to the dashed versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-09-21 22:53         ` Junio C Hamano

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