Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 23, 2007, 04:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8x82x4m6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708222006110.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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>> > I'd love for every single shell-script in git core to be written in C, so 
>> > that we can drop the dependency on shell *entirely*.
>> 
>> What about the test suite?
>
> The test suite is indeed special. But I think that's a "build requiement", 
> and if we require something like shell for *building*, that's different 
> from requiring normal users to have it.

Also it is a good test for the kind of scriptability you (and I) seek. We should not drop shell from the test suite for that reason.

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