From: Felipe Contreras Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:04:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] repack: rewrite the shell script in C Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1377808774-12505-2-git-send-email-stefanbeller@googlemail.com> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > 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