Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 23, 2006, 17:13 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602230911410.3771@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0602230607n22146a77k36929f0ad9e44d53@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Alex Riesen wrote:

>
> Someday we'll have to start dropping features on Windows or restrict them
> beyond their usefullness.

One thing that would help a bit would be to avoid shell.

There are many portable interpreters out there, and I don't mean perl. And writing a small "specialized for git" one isn't even that hard. In fact, most of the shell (and bash) hackery we do now would be unnecessary if we just made a small "git interpreter" that ran "git scripts".

The fact that it would also help portability is just an added advantage.

		Linus

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