From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:13:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Message-ID: 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