Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stefan Beller <stefanbel...@googlemail.com> writes:
>> The motivation of this patch is to get closer to a goal of being >> able to have a core subset of git functionality built in to git. >> That would mean >> >> * people on Windows could get a copy of at least the core parts >> of Git without having to install a Unix-style shell >> >> * people deploying to servers don't have to rewrite the #! line >> or worry about the PATH and quality of installed POSIX >> utilities, if they are only using the built-in part written >> in C > >I am not sure what is meant by the latter. Rewriting #! is part of > any scripted Porcelain done by the top-level Makefile, and I do not > think we have seen any problem reports on it. > > As to "quality of ... utilities", I think the real issue some people > in the thread had was not about "deploying to servers" but about > installing in a minimalistic chrooted environment where standard > tools may be lacking. Thanks for a sanity check. Yeah, the second item should be about minimal chroots, not my sloppy guess about some hypothetical bad operating system with untrustworthy tools. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
