From: Koen Kooi <k-kooi@ti.com>
Subject: Git: don't use hardlink, try softlinks and fall back to plain 'cp'

Using hardlinks confuses packaging an ends up giving us a *copy* of the git binary,
making the resulting package 54MB big. This brings it down a more managable 4.4M.

This patch isn't complete though:

12cb2bfcde40ce7084ae44af7db88f29  git-cvsserver
2404a2cd2838be3841eac93de40a644e  git
2404a2cd2838be3841eac93de40a644e  git-receive-pack
2404a2cd2838be3841eac93de40a644e  git-upload-archive
61631194968f67e12abd1f80103a2c68  git-upload-pack
7b8faebe64076d65934a05cd60bbeb29  git-shell

---

--- /tmp/Makefile	2010-05-15 09:39:26.000000000 +0200
+++ git-1.7.0.2/Makefile	2010-05-15 09:44:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -1453,7 +1453,6 @@
 
 $(BUILT_INS): git$X
 	$(QUIET_BUILT_IN)$(RM) $@ && \
-	ln git$X $@ 2>/dev/null || \
 	ln -s git$X $@ 2>/dev/null || \
 	cp git$X $@
 
@@ -1626,7 +1625,6 @@
 
 $(REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES): $(REMOTE_CURL_PRIMARY)
 	$(QUIET_LNCP)$(RM) $@ && \
-	ln $< $@ 2>/dev/null || \
 	ln -s $< $@ 2>/dev/null || \
 	cp $< $@
 
@@ -1830,13 +1828,11 @@
 		cp "$$bindir/git$X" "$$execdir/git$X"; } ; } && \
 	{ for p in $(BUILT_INS); do \
 		$(RM) "$$execdir/$$p" && \
-		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; \
 	  done; } && \
 	{ for p in $(REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES); do \
 		$(RM) "$$execdir/$$p" && \
-		ln "$$execdir/git-remote-http$X" "$$execdir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
 		ln -s "git-remote-http$X" "$$execdir/$$p" 2>/dev/null || \
 		cp "$$execdir/git-remote-http$X" "$$execdir/$$p" || exit; \
 	  done; } && \