Re: [RFC/PATCH 5/5] Makefile: Add a NO_INSTALL_BUILTIN_EXECDIR_ALIASES flag

2018-11-12 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Ævar, On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Back when git was initially written the likes of "git-add", "git-init" > etc. were installed in the user's $PATH. A few years later everything, > with a few exceptions like git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack, was > expected to be

Re: [RFC/PATCH 5/5] Makefile: Add a NO_INSTALL_BUILTIN_EXECDIR_ALIASES flag

2018-11-03 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 6:38 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Let's add an option to break this backwards compatibility. Now with > NO_INSTALL_BUILTIN_EXECDIR_ALIASES=YesPlease there's only 3 programs > in the bindir that are hardlinked to "git" (receive-pack, > upload-archive & upload-pack),

[RFC/PATCH 5/5] Makefile: Add a NO_INSTALL_BUILTIN_EXECDIR_ALIASES flag

2018-11-02 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Back when git was initially written the likes of "git-add", "git-init" etc. were installed in the user's $PATH. A few years later everything, with a few exceptions like git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack, was expected to be invoked as "git $cmd". Now something like a decade later we're still