Re: quick bare clones taking longer?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 10, 2007, 23:22 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3b24i7s0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <91705d080705101508y26eabb37oaf90aa4d9a7e239a@mail.gmail.com>

"Dan Nicholson" <dbn.lists@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 5/10/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> ...
>> We reject something whose portability is in question by saying
>> "It's not _even in_ POSIX".  We on the other hand try to refrain
>> from saying "POSIX says you are supposed to have it, so screw
>> people that are not fully POSIX".
>
> Yes, I suppose. At the same time, git already implicitly requires more
> than, say, a Bourne shell.

Yes, and the line is fuzzy and case by case. I am playing it safe as we are in pre-release freeze, also I condider /bin/pwd much more universally available than "cd -P".