Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 23, 2007, 09:15 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708231014050.20400@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708222006110.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> > Linus wrote:
> >
> > > I'd love for every single shell-script in git core to be written in 
> > > C, so that we can drop the dependency on shell *entirely*.
> > 
> > What about the test suite?
> 
> The test suite is indeed special. But I think that's a "build 
> requiement", and if we require something like shell for *building*, 
> that's different from requiring normal users to have it.

And do not forget that "make install" is not _part_ of "make install". If you do not want to check that all is fine, but trust the other suc^Wdevelopers, you can just omit running the tests.

Ciao, Dscho