From 37bbcd6a7bbe81e510eb0cdec6fa303c25bf2202 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:55:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] windows: skip linking `git-` for built-ins It is merely a historical wart that, say, `git-commit` exists in the `libexec/git-core/` directory, a tribute to the original idea to let Git be essentially a bunch of Unix shell scripts revolving around very few "plumbing" (AKA low-level) commands. Git has evolved a lot from there. These days, most of Git's functionality is contained within the `git` executable, in the form of "built-in" commands. To accommodate for scripts that use the "dashed" form of Git commands, even today, Git provides hard-links that make the `git` executable available as, say, `git-commit`, just in case that an old script has not been updated to invoke `git commit`. Those hard-links do not come cheap: they take about half a minute for every build of Git on Windows, they are mistaken for taking up huge amounts of space by some Windows Explorer versions that do not understand hard-links, and therefore many a "bug" report had to be addressed. The "dashed form" has been officially deprecated in Git version 1.5.4, which was released on February 2nd, 2008, i.e. a very long time ago. This deprecation was never finalized by skipping these hard-links, but we can start the process now, in Git for Windows. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- config.mak.uname | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index d5112168a4cbfd..e09b9c1893bbcd 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows) NO_POSIX_GOODIES = UnfortunatelyYes NATIVE_CRLF = YesPlease DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html + SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS = YabbaDabbaDoo ifeq (/mingw64,$(subst 32,64,$(prefix))) # Move system config into top-level /etc/ ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig @@ -677,6 +678,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) FSMONITOR_DAEMON_BACKEND = win32 FSMONITOR_OS_SETTINGS = win32 + SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS = YabbaDabbaDoo RUNTIME_PREFIX = YesPlease HAVE_WPGMPTR = YesWeDo NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT = YesPlease