Alp Toker wrote: > Doing this now will save headache in the long run, avoiding mismatched > versions of installed utilities and dangling copies of removed or > renamed git commands that still appear to work. It also makes screwups > when packaging git or making system backups less likely. > > BusyBox has been doing it this way for years. > Git has been doing it for a couple of months, although it uses hardlinks instead of symlinks. Hardlinks are slightly faster and actually consume a little less hard-disk space, although the differences are so small you won't notice it unless you do several thousand invocations. > > $(BUILT_INS): git$X > - rm -f $@ && ln git$X $@ > + ln -sf git$X $@ > The -f option to ln is not very portable, hence the "rm && ln" construct. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Jul 11 21:16:28 2006
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