Re: Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git?

2018-03-30 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Duy, On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin > wrote: > > To add some interesting information to this: in MinGit (the > > light-weight "Git for applications" we bundle to avoid adding a hefty > > 230MB to any

Re: Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git?

2018-03-16 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > To add some interesting information to this: in MinGit (the light-weight > "Git for applications" we bundle to avoid adding a hefty 230MB to any > application that wants to bundle Git for Windows), we simply

Re: Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git?

2018-03-15 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Junio, On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > > > Is the only reason we're still installing these binaries like git-add in > > libexec for compatibility with some old installation where that was > > added to the $PATH, shouldn't we

Re: Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git?

2018-03-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > Is the only reason we're still installing these binaries like git-add in > libexec for compatibility with some old installation where that was > added to the $PATH, shouldn't we (and I can write this patch) also have > a toggle for "I want the

Re: Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git?

2018-03-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Mar 13 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason jotted: > On Thu, Mar 08 2018, Daniel Jacques jotted: > >>> It would be great to have this rebooted now that my perl cleanup efforts >>> have un-blocked this. Will be happy to help review & test the next >>> iteration. >> >> Yes, I was just thinking

RE: Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git?

2018-03-13 Thread Randall S. Becker
On March 13, 2018 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > > > Related to this, I came across this bug report > > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/3265 which is > > wondering why we're installing N copies of the git binary,

Re: Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git?

2018-03-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > Related to this, I came across this bug report > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/3265 which is > wondering why we're installing N copies of the git binary, presumably > they're building with NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS. > ... > But

Why don't we symlink libexec/git-core/* to bin/git?

2018-03-13 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Mar 08 2018, Daniel Jacques jotted: >> It would be great to have this rebooted now that my perl cleanup efforts >> have un-blocked this. Will be happy to help review & test the next >> iteration. > > Yes, I was just thinking the same thing. I wanted to make sure the Perl > changes had