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Asked: 2026-05-29T23:20:51+00:00

I successfully built Git on Windows using the source github.com/msysgit/git . When I go

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I successfully built Git on Windows using the source
github.com/msysgit/git.

When I go into /libexec/git-core I see 106 files at 5,329 KB each.

git.exe
git-add.exe
git-apply.exe
etc.

How do I build Git so that these are proper 0 byte shortcuts?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Building Git with GCC creates several hard links. These appear to each take up 5,329 KB but they are all linked to the same memory, so in total they take up 5,329 KB.

    Knowing this I wanted a way to simply build Git without them, so I posted to the mailing list. Here was my response.

    If you really want to do so, the right way is not by mucking BUILT_INS
    to empty. I do not know how GfW is built, but if it uses our usual
    Makefile, find the place where it installs the git-foo forms of links
    after it installs the main git executable, and comment it out.

    And no, it will not be a compilation option, as the resulting
    installation will break the age-old promise we made to script writers.

    thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/196179/focus=196182

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