Re: [PATCH] Allow building GIT in a different directory from the source directory

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 12, 2006, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612121951000.2807@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <457E979F.9060307@xs4all.nl>

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> I still don't understand the problem with autoconf; there are already 
> plenty of baroque shell scripts in GIT.  I hate writing m4 macros as 
> well, but that's not a problem for GIT users (ie. people who compile 
> GIT).

That, together with the complexity of GIT_EXEC_DIR and path mangling problems, makes me take every opportunity to suggest we should build in most if not all of Git into the "git wrapper".

Granted, without completion scripts, the "git-" convention was nice.

Granted, with bash, Perl and even Python, you can rapidly prototype your thoughts (even if I often miss the power of C there).

But in the end, I'd say it makes lots of sense to have everything in one executable.

Ciao, Dscho