1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/cmd-rename.sh b/cmd-rename.sh
index ad3285b797..992493de22 100755
--- a/cmd-rename.sh
+++ b/cmd-rename.sh
@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+#
+# If you installed git by hand previously, you may find this
+# script useful to remove the symbolic links that we shipped
+# for backward compatibility.
+#
+# Running this script with the previous installation directory
+# like this:
+#
+# $ cmd-rename.sh /usr/local/bin/
+#
+# would clean them.
+
 d="$1"
 test -d "$d" || exit
 while read old new
 do
 	rm -f "$d/$old"
-	if [ -x "$d/$new" ]; then
-	ln -s "$new" "$d/$old"
-	fi
 done <<\EOF
 git-add-script	git-add
 git-archimport-script	git-archimport
@@ -51,7 +60,3 @@ git-update-cache	git-update-index
 git-convert-cache	git-convert-objects
 git-fsck-cache	git-fsck-objects
 EOF
-
-# These two are a bit more than symlinks now.
-# git-ssh-push	git-ssh-upload
-# git-ssh-pull	git-ssh-fetch