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Optionally skip linking/copying the built-ins

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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>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Schindelin 2020-09-21 22:28:16 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent a8b5355d80
commit 179227d6e2
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@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ all::
# Define NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS if you prefer to use either symbolic links or
# copies to install built-in git commands e.g. git-cat-file.
#
# Define SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS if you do not need the dashed versions of the
# built-ins to be linked/copied at all.
#
# Define USE_NED_ALLOCATOR if you want to replace the platforms default
# memory allocators with the nedmalloc allocator written by Niall Douglas.
#
@ -774,6 +777,16 @@ BUILT_INS += git-whatchanged$X
# what 'all' will build and 'install' will install in gitexecdir,
# excluding programs for built-in commands
ALL_PROGRAMS = $(PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPTS)
ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL = $(ALL_PROGRAMS)
ifeq (,$(SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS))
ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL += $(BUILT_INS)
else
# git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack and git-upload-archive are special: they
# are _expected_ to be present in the `bin/` directory in their dashed form.
ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL += git-receive-pack$(X)
ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL += git-upload-archive$(X)
ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL += git-upload-pack$(X)
endif
# what 'all' will build but not install in gitexecdir
OTHER_PROGRAMS = git$X
@ -2088,9 +2101,9 @@ profile-fast: profile-clean
$(MAKE) PROFILE=USE all
all:: $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPT_LIB) $(BUILT_INS) $(OTHER_PROGRAMS) GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
all:: $(ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL) $(SCRIPT_LIB) $(OTHER_PROGRAMS) GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
ifneq (,$X)
$(QUIET_BUILT_IN)$(foreach p,$(patsubst %$X,%,$(filter %$X,$(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(BUILT_INS) git$X)), test -d '$p' -o '$p' -ef '$p$X' || $(RM) '$p';)
$(QUIET_BUILT_IN)$(foreach p,$(patsubst %$X,%,$(filter %$X,$(ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL) git$X)), test -d '$p' -o '$p' -ef '$p$X' || $(RM) '$p';)
endif
all::
@ -2950,7 +2963,7 @@ ifndef NO_TCLTK
$(MAKE) -C git-gui gitexecdir='$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)' install
endif
ifneq (,$X)
$(foreach p,$(patsubst %$X,%,$(filter %$X,$(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(BUILT_INS) git$X)), test '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)/$p' -ef '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)/$p$X' || $(RM) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)/$p';)
$(foreach p,$(patsubst %$X,%,$(filter %$X,$(ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL) git$X)), test '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)/$p' -ef '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)/$p$X' || $(RM) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)/$p';)
endif
bindir=$$(cd '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)' && pwd) && \
@ -2968,21 +2981,27 @@ endif
} && \
for p in $(filter $(install_bindir_programs),$(BUILT_INS)); do \
$(RM) "$$bindir/$$p" && \
test -n "$(INSTALL_SYMLINKS)" && \
ln -s "git$X" "$$bindir/$$p" || \
{ test -z "$(NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS)" && \
ln "$$bindir/git$X" "$$bindir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
ln -s "git$X" "$$bindir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
cp "$$bindir/git$X" "$$bindir/$$p" || exit; } \
if test -z "$(SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS)"; \
then \
test -n "$(INSTALL_SYMLINKS)" && \
ln -s "git$X" "$$bindir/$$p" || \
{ test -z "$(NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS)" && \
ln "$$bindir/git$X" "$$bindir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
ln -s "git$X" "$$bindir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
cp "$$bindir/git$X" "$$bindir/$$p" || exit; }; \
fi \
done && \
for p in $(BUILT_INS); do \
$(RM) "$$execdir/$$p" && \
test -n "$(INSTALL_SYMLINKS)" && \
ln -s "$$destdir_from_execdir_SQ/$(bindir_relative_SQ)/git$X" "$$execdir/$$p" || \
{ test -z "$(NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS)" && \
ln "$$execdir/git$X" "$$execdir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
ln -s "git$X" "$$execdir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
cp "$$execdir/git$X" "$$execdir/$$p" || exit; } \
if test -z "$(SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS)"; \
then \
test -n "$(INSTALL_SYMLINKS)" && \
ln -s "$$destdir_from_execdir_SQ/$(bindir_relative_SQ)/git$X" "$$execdir/$$p" || \
{ test -z "$(NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS)" && \
ln "$$execdir/git$X" "$$execdir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
ln -s "git$X" "$$execdir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
cp "$$execdir/git$X" "$$execdir/$$p" || exit; }; \
fi \
done && \
remote_curl_aliases="$(REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES)" && \
for p in $$remote_curl_aliases; do \
@ -3076,7 +3095,7 @@ ifneq ($(INCLUDE_DLLS_IN_ARTIFACTS),)
OTHER_PROGRAMS += $(shell echo *.dll t/helper/*.dll)
endif
artifacts-tar:: $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPT_LIB) $(BUILT_INS) $(OTHER_PROGRAMS) \
artifacts-tar:: $(ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL) $(SCRIPT_LIB) $(OTHER_PROGRAMS) \
GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS $(TEST_PROGRAMS) $(test_bindir_programs) \
$(MOFILES)
$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)templates $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) \
@ -3171,7 +3190,7 @@ endif
### Check documentation
#
ALL_COMMANDS = $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPT_LIB) $(BUILT_INS)
ALL_COMMANDS = $(ALL_COMMANDS_TO_INSTALL) $(SCRIPT_LIB)
ALL_COMMANDS += git
ALL_COMMANDS += git-citool
ALL_COMMANDS += git-gui
@ -3211,7 +3230,7 @@ check-docs::
-e 's/\.txt//'; \
) | while read how cmd; \
do \
case " $(patsubst %$X,%,$(ALL_COMMANDS) $(EXCLUDED_PROGRAMS)) " in \
case " $(patsubst %$X,%,$(ALL_COMMANDS) $(BUILT_INS) $(EXCLUDED_PROGRAMS)) " in \
*" $$cmd "*) ;; \
*) echo "removed but $$how: $$cmd" ;; \
esac; \