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Subject: Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 20:58:01 +0530
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Cc: David Lang <david@lang.hm>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>, git@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
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	Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> So at least for now, the conclusion is to take approach #1, i.e.
> somebody who finds "related" a good addition rewrites it in Perl to
> promote it out of contrib/ once the design issues settle (of course
> it is still a possibility that no such volunteer appears).

We'll think about it if and when we get major ruby patches, and see
perl patches declining.  One git-related.rb doesn't say anything.