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

---

Index: git-1.7.3.5/Makefile
===================================================================
--- git-1.7.3.5.orig/Makefile
+++ git-1.7.3.5/Makefile
@@ -1619,7 +1619,6 @@ builtin/help.s builtin/help.o: EXTRA_CPP
 
 $(BUILT_INS): git$X
 	$(QUIET_BUILT_IN)$(RM) $@ && \
-	ln git$X $@ 2>/dev/null || \
 	ln -s git$X $@ 2>/dev/null || \
 	cp git$X $@
 
@@ -1936,7 +1935,6 @@ git-http-push$X: revision.o http.o http-
 
 $(REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES): $(REMOTE_CURL_PRIMARY)
 	$(QUIET_LNCP)$(RM) $@ && \
-	ln $< $@ 2>/dev/null || \
 	ln -s $< $@ 2>/dev/null || \
 	cp $< $@
 
@@ -2134,20 +2132,17 @@ endif
 	} && \
 	for p in $(filter $(install_bindir_programs),$(BUILT_INS)); do \
 		$(RM) "$$bindir/$$p" && \
-		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; \
 	done && \
 	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 && \
 	remote_curl_aliases="$(REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES)" && \
 	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 && \