Re: Change Native Windows shell

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2020, 04:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20200605043930.GB193658@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAXzdLVk3jLzuB2vgKGObQDjPydpdiawKJJ+-NMa376Gu1zt1A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Steven Penny wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 7:01 PM brian m. carlson wrote:

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>> If you really need Git functionality that doesn't rely on sh, you can
>> look into libgit2 and its assorted language wrappers.
>
> Uh yeah, no. Im not reimplementing the entire Git program, when the fix is 7
> lines. Here it is, if anyone is interested:

Understood: that's perfectly reasonable for your own use, and I can
hope that this is the first step toward becoming an active Git
contributor in the future. :)

However, for the reasons Brian said, it's not going into Git upstream.

Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan