Re: [RFC PATCH] repack: rewrite the shell script in C.

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 15, 2013, 04:20 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AJ4eTXXArvN0eTC-_j7oSE8V+8zCDYP3gm4KZUrH90jA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7gfnj38d.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

> There's a real problem with git-repack being shell (I already mentionned
> it in the previous thread about the rewrite): it creates dependencies on
> a few external binaries, and a restricted server may not have them.

There's also the Windows port. A POSIX shell environment is required for using git on Windows, but I feel one should be able to use core functionlity even without POSIX utilities. git-repack is part of this core in my opinion.

-- 
Duy

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