Hi Austin, On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:47:27AM -0500, Austin Seipp wrote: > It's *part* of mainline git, but it is not installed with git. It's > part of git's "contrib" functionality package which requires that your > package maintainer be gracious enough to include it and install it by > default, which requires extra intervention at build-time. > > As a counter-example, my 'git' from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine has no > subtree and there are no existing instances of it in any 'precise' > repositories. I'm hesitant to require developers en masse to use it > for reasons like this. > > (Frankly I also don't know how this would work out on windows. Like, I > don't know how to get a git-build-with-subtree-for-windows, much less > if it works on windows at all.)
git-subtree is just a bash script, so it's more of an installing than a building issue. The windows version of git already has to support bash by using the msys environment. > Because GHC does not technically 'own' them by the most strict > definition. testsuite and base are also useful for other compilers, > such as nhc98 (and indeed, nhc uses base itself.) The same can be said > of nofib. As a result, there is a separation. Just to make it clear, testsuite and base could still be contained in separate repositories, regardless if GHC would use git-subtree or not. It's just the question how these repositories are incorporated into GHC. Greetings, Daniel _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
