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

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> >> I actually have a suspicion that "git bugreport" that is spawned via
> >> "git" wrapper is a bad idea (in other words, /usr/bin/git-bug that
> >> is totally standalone may be better).
> >
> > The obvious downside of `/usr/bin/git-bug`, of course, is that it has no
> > way to provide accurate data regarding, say, the cURL version in use.
>
> Sorry, but I do not see what's new in your argument this time.
>
> I thought we've already established that the best solution for the
> "accurate data regarding, say, the cURL version in use" is to use
> your earlier idea, i.e. give an interface to git-remote-curl so that
> "git bugreport" can ask it such details, because "git bugreport"
> that is known by git.c::cmd_main(), whether it is builtin or
> standalone, is *NOT* linked to the transport anyway.
>
> And the same interface can be used by an independent "git-bug", or
> even by the end user who is sitting at a terminal when asked by git
> developers "what version of curl library does your build link
> with?".