From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv6 1/2] repack: rewrite the shell script in C Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:03:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20130822210353.GQ4110@google.com> References: <5214F816.3010303@googlemail.com> <1377106096-28195-1-git-send-email-stefanbeller@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stefan Beller , 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 To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 22 23:04:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VCc30-0002zs-6G for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:04:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754312Ab3HVVD6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:03:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com ([209.85.192.169]:34595 "EHLO mail-pd0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754196Ab3HVVD5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:03:57 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f169.google.com with SMTP id r10so2400072pdi.14 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:03:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=ia5ZWpqLmb0NjMVOM0UhMcbezQuDj6ac0Jxt/bC0fwo=; b=B/Vvx0ZoNZQHZYCeanhzlR0M5bPcyQkUIHKfvHCkRVyT5c5IOf/NJSgBSNyMm9R6Ho +MUFdv3LUrX5X9/nhbr6+9b/hgRBJ4wtGJekDKppS2/DT0we1ZwC92VyeMERV2aWcqNn Iz0cKO2QmBu9xR35RZ6SM1tsDkbe6TRbLg7BKNB3wOYOXogdlfINX/r6GqrS7aELmciE 0naC9HjqrGKS3KqLMmZCbUw0VCVLT7LZ0UVfhv+dioDesEn540RNyPd9j500K3oLlHPZ UZwl6ySOR3GkPoKsqc/zT8lePNBc4fMpcJDa/UjIwWHSENOwwRILr0CCDGk6jSk8z3LF GnNg== X-Received: by 10.68.130.2 with SMTP id oa2mr7380408pbb.134.1377205437279; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:03:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from google.com ([2620:0:1000:5b00:b6b5:2fff:fec3:b50d]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ht5sm16870721pbb.29.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stefan Beller 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