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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make gc a builtin.

From
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date
Mar 12, 2007, 13:36 UTC
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<20070312133612.GD4372@thunk.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0703121222350.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 06:06:56PM -0400, James Bowes wrote:
> > > The following two patches make git-gc a builtin command.
> > 
> > What's the advantage in making git-gc a builtin command?
> 
> Portability. Plus, James wanted to get involved in Git development, and 
> building in gc really was the shortest path into that.
>

I'm not sure I understand the portability argument? All of the platforms that git currently supports will handle shell scripts, right?

Heck, git-commit is still a shell script, and that's a rather, ah, fundamental command, isn't it? 

						- Ted
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Message 11 of 15 in “Make gc a builtin.”
  1. 0/2 Make gc a builtin.James Bowes, Mar 11, 2007
  2. 1/2 run-command: Make run_command_va_opt public and add run_command_vaJames Bowes, Mar 11, 2007
  3. 2/2 Make gc a builtin.James Bowes, Mar 11, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 11, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 12, 2007
  6. Make gc a builtin.James Bowes, Mar 12, 2007
  7. Shawn O. PearceMar 12, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinMar 12, 2007
  9. Theodore TsoMar 12, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinMar 12, 2007
  11. Theodore TsoMar 12, 2007
  12. Linus TorvaldsMar 12, 2007
  13. Jakub NarebskiMar 13, 2007
  14. Linus TorvaldsMar 13, 2007
  15. Shawn O. PearceMar 12, 2007

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