Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] contrib/subtree: reduce recursion during split

From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Jun 2, 2026, 09:06 UTC
Message-ID: <27166.40199.68450.953526@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv7c13o5l.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano writes ("Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] contrib/subtree: reduce recursion during split"):

> So after this message the thread went dark (except for a side
> discussion about rewriting subtree in Rust, which I do think it is a
> good direction to go in the longer term).

I'm indeed still working on this. Given other things on my plate it will be months rather than weeks before I have anything anyone one might want to use.

> While I do agree that avoiding bash-isms in the main part of Git and
> sticking to vanilla POSIX has merit, this particular one seems more
> like an artificial limit imposed by dash than sticking to the POSIX
> as the common denoninator, at least to me.

I would be in favour of switching to bash, making bash a dependency for this script. We could use the env trick to support platforms that don't have it in /bin.

Ian.

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