From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Daniel Jacques" <dnj@google.com>,
"Steffen Prohaska" <prohaska@zib.de>,
"John Keeping" <john@keeping.me.uk>, "Stan Hu" <stanhu@gmail.com>,
"Richard Clamp" <richardc@unixbeard.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Makefile: optionally symlink libexec/git-core binaries to bin/git
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:42:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFz6J2j_o0b1JfPSPUX0t3703oFtrpcot29_cgbKi7EnOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1803151804390.64@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz>
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.
That's probably not a bad idea for the builtin commands. At least as an option.
We do end up still using the dashed form for certain things, but they
are already special-cased (ie things like "git-receive-pack" and
"git-shell" that very much get executed directly, and for fundamental
reasons).
As to it being a design mistake? No, not really. It made a lot of
sense at the time. The fact is, the problem is Windows, not git. I
know you have your hangups, but that's your problem.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-15 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-06 23:34 What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2018, #02; Tue, 6) Junio C Hamano
2018-03-07 12:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-08 9:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-08 13:12 ` Daniel Jacques
2018-03-13 12:36 ` Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-13 18:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-13 19:32 ` Randall S. Becker
2018-03-13 20:39 ` [PATCH 0/3] Makefile: add a INSTALL_SYMLINKS option Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-13 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] Makefile: fix broken bindir_relative variable Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-13 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] Makefile: add a gitexecdir_relative variable Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-13 20:39 ` [PATCH 3/3] Makefile: optionally symlink libexec/git-core binaries to bin/git Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-14 7:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2018-03-14 10:14 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-14 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-15 17:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-15 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-03-16 11:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-16 12:43 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-19 11:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-19 21:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-11-02 22:37 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/5] stop installing old libexec aliases like "git-init" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-03 1:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-05 11:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-12 13:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-16 10:38 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-16 16:00 ` Michael Haggerty
2018-11-16 19:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-17 6:39 ` Jeff King
2018-11-22 12:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-22 16:06 ` Jeff King
2018-11-23 11:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-02 22:37 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/5] Makefile: move long inline shell loops in "install" into helper Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-04 1:09 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-12 14:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-12 14:42 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-12 16:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-11-16 10:32 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-02 22:37 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/5] Makefile: conform some of the code to our coding standards Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-02 22:37 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/5] Makefile: stop hiding failures during "install" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-02 22:37 ` [RFC/PATCH 4/5] Makefile: add NO_INSTALL_SYMLINKS_FALLBACK switch Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-04 1:01 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-02 22:37 ` [RFC/PATCH 5/5] Makefile: Add a NO_INSTALL_BUILTIN_EXECDIR_ALIASES flag Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-04 1:04 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-11-12 14:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-15 17:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] Makefile: optionally symlink libexec/git-core binaries to bin/git Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-14 10:18 ` Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git? Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-03-14 16:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-03-15 17:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-16 17:29 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-30 8:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-03-09 6:15 ` What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2018, #02; Tue, 6) Martin Ågren
2018-03-09 9:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-03-09 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
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