Re: [PATCH 1/2] repack: rewrite the shell script in C

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2013, 21:04 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s19gcJAYJ_MbvdoU99EeeHPDj9t+34jBs=MC33VC9nTNw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1377808774-12505-2-git-send-email-stefanbeller@googlemail.com>

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> wrote:

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> The motivation of this patch is to get closer to a goal of being
> able to have a core subset of git functionality built in to git.
> That would mean
>
>  * people on Windows could get a copy of at least the core parts
>    of Git without having to install a Unix-style shell

I think this is great, I'm looking forward to improve the situation in this regard.

Do you have in mind any other command that should also be replaced this way?

> This patch is meant to be mostly a literal translation of the
> git-repack script; the intent is that later patches would start using
> more library facilities, but this patch is meant to be as close to a
> no-op as possible so it doesn't do that kind of thing.

I'm not sure if this has been tackled already, or you could take a look into that, but:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/147190

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras