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Re: [PATCH] Remove perl dependant commands if NO_PERL is set

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 3, 2015, 19:56 UTC
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Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> writes:
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>> You also may want to hold off the "git-submodule" bit, as I expect
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/277128/focus=277129
>> would be one of the first changes to be in 'master' after the
>> upcoming release 2.6 (that is, it is likely that perl dependency
>> would be removed in 2.7).
>
> Can’t we add git-submodule to the list now, for 2.6, and then remove
> it when this change is pushed? This would help to have a sane tarball
> for 2.6. I’m considering this from a package maintainer perspective.

Not really. Anything brand-new that comes this late in the cycle will not be in 2.6, so the earliest release this NO_PERL change can appear in is one after the upcoming release.

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