From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 22:36:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] remove dead shell code
Message-ID: <xmqqbl5aip0e.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <874kb2a9tp.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> You'll know better what you meant, but I interpreted the docs you added
> for git-sh-setup in 850844e28f7 (Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt:
> programmer's docs, 2007-01-17) as a guide for in-tree porcelain scripts.

No, it is not for "in-tree".  Especially back then, one of the Git's
goal was to be and to stay scriptable, and git-sh-setup was for those
who are scripting, either "in-tree" or custom Porcelain people wrote
around Git as part of a larger Git ecosystem.