Hi,

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Edward Z. Yang wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > And the hard links are not necessary, so why not get rid of them 
> > already?  That is exactly what I proposed.
> 
> How about this: auto-detect if the thumb-drive is NTFS, and if it is,
> create hard links for the git-* executables, otherwise save space and
> force the user to use the git * syntax.
> 
> Of course, this is all for a theoretical installer that someone will
> have to code.

Not so theoretical.  We already fall back to copying when hardlinking 
fails.

Ciao,
Dscho

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