From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:33:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] Retire the scripted difftool
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701181332230.3469@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk29tcqb8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi Junio,

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > It served its purpose, but now we have a builtin difftool. Time for the
> > Perl script to enjoy Florida.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > ---
> 
> The endgame makes a lot of sense.  Both in the cover letter and in
> the previous patch you talk about having both in the released
> version, so do you want this step to proceed slower than the other
> two?

I did proceed that slowly. Already three Git for Windows versions have
been released with both.

But I submitted this iteration with this patch, so my intent is clearly to
retire the Perl script.

Ciao,
Johannes