[PATCH 09/12] windows: skip linking `git-<command>` for built-ins

From: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]>
---
 config.mak.uname | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index 3a90995587..88bbe1d78f 100644
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ 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,$(subst clangarm,mingw,$(prefix))))
 	# Move system config into top-level /etc/
 	ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig
@@ -710,6 +711,7 @@ 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
-- 
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