From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 23:22:07 GMT Subject: Re: quick bare clones taking longer? Message-ID: <7v3b24i7s0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <91705d080705101508y26eabb37oaf90aa4d9a7e239a@mail.gmail.com> "Dan Nicholson" writes: > On 5/10/07, Junio C Hamano 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".