From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:09:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Adding color to git-add--interactive
Message-ID: <20071010210958.GA16635@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071010170621.GA5444@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King, Wed, Oct 10, 2007 19:06:21 +0200:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:06:09PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > I think the reason git-add--interactive does not use it is that some 
> > people (me included) experienced heavy problems with perl modules.  
> > However, I do not recall to which extent they have been solved.  I guess 
> > when git-add--interactive goes Git.pm and stops working for me, I'll do my 
> > famous "aargh, I'll just make it a builtin" song.
> 
> I had thought this was the case, too (and in fact, I started to write
> "we don't have a good solution for sharing perl code"), but it looks
> like git-remote, git-svn, and git-send-email are all using Git.pm these
> days.
> 

And strangely enough, git-remote is even usable on cygwin.
Can't say for others though.