From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:59:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/5] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info
Message-ID: <xmqqr1y11sn7.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2003082319260.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Junio,
>
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2020, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> What makes it possible by making "git bugreport" stand-alone is for
>> it to link with libraries that the remainder of Git, including the
>> transports that link with libcurl, has no business linking with (a
>> library to obtain system details for diagnostic purposes, for
>> example).
>
> That would, however, make `git-bugreport` more fragile than `git`, i.e.
> the former might fail to launch under more circumstances than the latter.

That's a bug.  You can go fix it when it happens.