On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> writes:
>> Nevertheless, there's still the problem, due to 527ec39
>> (generate-cmdlist: parse common group commands, 2015-05-21), that git
>> doesn't build at all anymore when Perl is unavailable.
>
> I do not think that is anything new.  We always have assumed "some"
> version of Perl available in order to run t/ scripts.

True, but prior to 527ec39, without Perl available, git itself could
at least be built and used (with some commands unavailable), even if
it couldn't be fully tested. As of 527ec39, however, git won't even
build because common-cmds.h can't be generated.
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