Re: [PATCH] Remove perl dependant commands if NO_PERL is set

From: Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org>
Date: Sep 3, 2015, 19:39 UTC
Message-ID: <2CFFD89E-7059-4C1C-B715-15C5F6C2D295@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7fo7jp1e.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

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> On Sep 3, 2015, at 16:11, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> garga@FreeBSD.org writes:
> 
>> From: Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org>
>> 
>> git-submodule and git-request-pull are written in sh but use perl
>> internally. Add them to be replaced by unimplemented.sh when NO_PERL
>> flag is set
>> ---
> 
> Missing sign-off.
> 
> You also may want to hold off the "git-submodule" bit, as I expect
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/277128/focus=277129
> would be one of the first changes to be in 'master' after the
> upcoming release 2.6 (that is, it is likely that perl dependency
> would be removed in 2.7).

Can’t we add git-submodule to the list now, for 2.6, and then remove it when this change is pushed? This would help to have a sane tarball for 2.6. I’m considering this from a package maintainer perspective.

I’ll re-send it with sign-off. -- Renato Botelho