Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 17:02 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701230852270.32200@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231732120.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> 
> Yes. But it _does_ have a dependency on perl and bash. For example, when 
> you merge git-merge-one-file is spawned -- a bash script.

That's just disgusting. I thought we fixed it, but apparently we only did so for git-merge-recursive. Hmm?

All the other uses seem to be just a case of

	git-merge-index -o git-merge-one-file -a

and wouldn't it be beautiful if the default action for git-merge-index (if you do _not_ specify a merger program) was to do the simple one-file three-way merge that we can already do for real merges?

Wouldn't it be nice if we could just do

	git-merge-index -o -a

and be done with it?

Johannes, this should be right up your alley.. Hint hint..

		Linus