From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:52:56 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <20061018215255.GZ20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20061018174450.f2108a21.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:44:50PM CEST, I got a letter
where Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> said that...
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:37:03 -0400
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> 
> > Today Git is typically extended (at least initially in prototyping
> > mode) through Perl, Python, TCL or Bourne shell scripts.  Although
> > the first three are available natively on Windows the last requires
> > Cygwin... and we've had some issues with ActiveState Perl on Windows
> > in the past too.
> 
> Just for kicks and giggles it would be nice if someone tried out
> one of the native Windows bourne shell ports[1] just to see how much
> is missing.  A bunch of command line utilities would have to be ported
> as well; maybe too many.  But i've held out booting a Windows box
> for a long time so.... not it!

I think that before starting to think about the porcelain scripts, you
need to port the plumbing. :-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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