Re: [PATCH v9 2/5] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info

> Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:
>
> > Builtin:
> > + Don't have to call out-of-process to identify 'git version --build-options'
> > + Better assurance that we aren't shipping a broken bugreport alongside a new
> >   version
> > - Binary bloat, possible startup time hit
> > ? Libraries will behave identically to where the user is seeing issues
> >   (This point is a possible pro but also a possible con; see similar point in
> >   standalone list)
>
>  - Makes it hard to pull in libraries that "bugreport" alone will
>    want to use in the future without negatively impacting the rest
>    of Git.

> >  - Time to editor for 'git bugreport' with the same setup as previous
>
> This is something we absolutely should totally ignore.  Even if the
> bulitin version takes 1 sec to spawn an editor while a standalone
> one took only 0.1 sec, if other criteria you listed that are more
> important favours the builtin solution, we should pick it.
>
> In any case, I think we've wasted enough time on this.  Let's see a
> minimum working version that won't break/affect the rest of Git and
> ship it standalone.