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Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

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PRPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date
Jun 2, 2006, 04:39 UTC
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On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:11 -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:
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> GIT today requires not only a decent UNIX shell but also, GNU tools,
> Perl and Python.  Porting to Solaris has recently had some more
> effort put into it to remove some of the GNU tool dependencies but
> perhaps one of the most important features (git-merge-recursive)
> is a Python script.

The great thing about git is that it's modular. A single utility can be replaced and retested in the same environment, without having to rewrite the rest of the scripts. A dedicated programmer with good C and Python skills could rewrite git-merge-recursive.py in C in 2 days, I believe. Add a few days of bug fixing, of course.

Dependency on Cygwin, Perl and Python is too much. Windows is becoming a legacy system in some circles, and it may run on legacy hardware. Yet it's irreplaceable as a testing platform for many projects.

I really need to rewrite git-clean in C, since it doesn't handle embedded newlines properly.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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