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author | Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> | 2020-09-21 22:28:16 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-09-21 15:47:54 -0700 |
commit | 179227d6e212373019f6a05ee235b3d4e7e2982e (patch) | |
tree | 02c036c5022846f28364b43cdfaacd76b293c710 /t/t3320-notes-merge-worktrees.sh | |
parent | msvc: copy the correct `.pdb` files in the Makefile target `install` (diff) | |
download | tgif-179227d6e212373019f6a05ee235b3d4e7e2982e.tar.xz |
Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins
For a long time already, the non-dashed form of the built-ins is the
recommended way to write scripts, i.e. it is better to call `git merge
[...]` than to call `git-merge [...]`.
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.
However, we *do* care about keeping people's scripts working (even if
they were written before the non-dashed form started to be recommended).
Keeping this backwards-compatibility is not necessarily cheap, though:
even so much as amending the tip commit in a git.git checkout will
require re-linking all of those dashed commands. On this developer's
laptop, this makes a noticeable difference:
$ touch version.c && time make
CC version.o
AR libgit.a
LINK git-bugreport.exe
[... 11 similar lines ...]
LN/CP git-remote-https.exe
LN/CP git-remote-ftp.exe
LN/CP git-remote-ftps.exe
LINK git.exe
BUILTIN git-add.exe
[... 123 similar lines ...]
BUILTIN all
SUBDIR git-gui
SUBDIR gitk-git
SUBDIR templates
LINK t/helper/test-fake-ssh.exe
LINK t/helper/test-line-buffer.exe
LINK t/helper/test-svn-fe.exe
LINK t/helper/test-tool.exe
real 0m36.633s
user 0m3.794s
sys 0m14.141s
$ touch version.c && time make SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS=1
CC version.o
AR libgit.a
LINK git-bugreport.exe
[... 11 similar lines ...]
LN/CP git-remote-https.exe
LN/CP git-remote-ftp.exe
LN/CP git-remote-ftps.exe
LINK git.exe
BUILTIN git-receive-pack.exe
BUILTIN git-upload-archive.exe
BUILTIN git-upload-pack.exe
BUILTIN all
SUBDIR git-gui
SUBDIR gitk-git
SUBDIR templates
LINK t/helper/test-fake-ssh.exe
LINK t/helper/test-line-buffer.exe
LINK t/helper/test-svn-fe.exe
LINK t/helper/test-tool.exe
real 0m23.717s
user 0m1.562s
sys 0m5.210s
Also, `.zip` files do not have any standardized support for hard-links,
therefore "zipping up" the executables will result in inflated disk
usage. (To keep down the size of the "MinGit" variant of Git for
Windows, which is distributed as a `.zip` file, the hard-links are
excluded specifically.)
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. See e.g.
https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/58.
To save on the time needed to hard-link these dashed commands, with the
plan to eventually stop shipping with those hard-links on Windows, let's
introduce a Makefile knob to skip generating them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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