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windows: skip linking git-<command> for built-ins
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 <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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NO_POSIX_GOODIES = UnfortunatelyYes
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NATIVE_CRLF = YesPlease
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DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html
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SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS = YabbaDabbaDoo
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ifeq (/mingw64,$(subst 32,64,$(subst clangarm,mingw,$(prefix))))
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# Move system config into top-level /etc/
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ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig
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FSMONITOR_DAEMON_BACKEND = win32
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FSMONITOR_OS_SETTINGS = win32
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SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS = YabbaDabbaDoo
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RUNTIME_PREFIX = YesPlease
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HAVE_WPGMPTR = YesWeDo
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NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT = YesPlease

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