From: Ian Jackson Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:06:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] contrib/subtree: reduce recursion during split Message-ID: <27166.40199.68450.953526@chiark.greenend.org.uk> In-Reply-To: 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. -- Ian Jackson These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.