On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:59:27AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> The gitweb code doesn't load Git.pm now, but does anyone know a reason
> for why we'd avoid any perl/* dependency in the gitweb code? If not the
> regex here & in gitweb could be factored into e.g. a tiny Git::OID
> library which would either just expose a $GIT::OID_REGEX, or something
> like the sort of interface (might not be worth it) that I suggested in
> my feedback to 31/31.

I think one potential issue here is that some distributors bundle the
Perl modules with git send-email and not gitweb, and they're packaged
independently. I'm not opposed to seeing a patch to do that, but it
probably belongs in its own series.
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