From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, mfick@codeaurora.org, apelisse@gmail.com,
Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr, pclouds@gmail.com, iveqy@iveqy.com,
mackyle@gmail.com, j6t@kdbg.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv6 1/2] repack: rewrite the shell script in C
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:03:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130822210353.GQ4110@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfvu2u5io.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-22 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-13 19:23 [PATCH] Rewriting git-repack in C Stefan Beller
2013-08-13 19:23 ` [PATCH] repack: rewrite the shell script " Stefan Beller
2013-08-14 7:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-14 16:26 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-14 16:27 ` [RFC PATCH] " Stefan Beller
2013-08-14 16:49 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-08-14 17:04 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-14 17:19 ` Jeff King
2013-08-14 17:25 ` Martin Fick
2013-08-14 22:16 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-14 22:28 ` Martin Fick
2013-08-14 22:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-14 23:28 ` Martin Fick
2013-08-15 17:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-16 0:12 ` [RFC PATCHv2] " Stefan Beller
2013-08-17 13:34 ` René Scharfe
2013-08-17 19:18 ` Kyle J. McKay
2013-08-18 14:34 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-18 14:36 ` [RFC PATCHv3] " Stefan Beller
2013-08-18 15:41 ` Kyle J. McKay
2013-08-18 16:44 ` René Scharfe
2013-08-18 22:26 ` [RFC PATCHv4] " Stefan Beller
2013-08-19 23:23 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-20 13:31 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-08-20 15:08 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-20 18:38 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-08-20 18:57 ` René Scharfe
2013-08-20 22:36 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-20 22:38 ` [PATCH] " Stefan Beller
2013-08-21 8:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-21 10:37 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-21 17:25 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-21 17:28 ` [RFC PATCHv6 1/2] " Stefan Beller
2013-08-21 17:28 ` [RFC PATCHv6 2/2] repack: retain the return value of pack-objects Stefan Beller
2013-08-21 20:56 ` [RFC PATCHv6 1/2] repack: rewrite the shell script in C Junio C Hamano
2013-08-21 21:52 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-21 22:15 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-21 22:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-21 22:57 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-22 10:46 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-08-22 21:03 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-08-21 8:49 ` [PATCH] " Matthieu Moy
2013-08-21 12:47 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-21 13:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-21 12:53 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-21 13:07 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-22 10:46 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-08-22 10:46 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-08-22 20:06 ` [PATCH] repack: rewrite the shell script in C (squashing proposal) Stefan Beller
2013-08-22 20:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-20 22:46 ` [RFC PATCHv4] repack: rewrite the shell script in C Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-21 9:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-08-20 21:24 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-20 21:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-20 21:40 ` Dokumenting api-paths.txt Stefan Beller
2013-08-20 21:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-21 22:43 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-22 17:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-14 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH] repack: rewrite the shell script in C Junio C Hamano
2013-08-14 22:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-15 7:47 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-15 4:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-14 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-14 22:51 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-14 23:25 ` Martin Fick
2013-08-15 0:26 ` Martin Fick
2013-08-15 7:46 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-15 15:04 ` Martin Fick
2013-08-15 4:20 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-14 17:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-15 7:53 ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-14 7:12 ` [PATCH] Rewriting git-repack " Matthieu Moy
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20130822210353.GQ4110@google.com \
--to=jrnieder@gmail.com \
--cc=Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr \
--cc=apelisse@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=iveqy@iveqy.com \
--cc=j6t@kdbg.org \
--cc=mackyle@gmail.com \
--cc=mfick@codeaurora.org \
--cc=pclouds@gmail.com \
--cc=stefanbeller@googlemail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).