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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] repack: rewrite the shell script in C
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:04:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMP44s19gcJAYJ_MbvdoU99EeeHPDj9t+34jBs=MC33VC9nTNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377808774-12505-2-git-send-email-stefanbeller@googlemail.com>

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Stefan Beller
<stefanbeller@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

I think this is great, I'm looking forward to improve the situation in
this regard.

Do you have in mind any other command that should also be replaced this way?

> This patch is meant to be mostly a literal translation of the
> git-repack script; the intent is that later patches would start using
> more library facilities, but this patch is meant to be as close to a
> no-op as possible so it doesn't do that kind of thing.

I'm not sure if this has been tackled already, or you could take a
look into that, but:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/147190

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-29 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-29 20:39 [PATCHv7 0/2] Rewriting repack in C Stefan Beller
2013-08-29 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] repack: rewrite the shell script " Stefan Beller
2013-08-29 21:04   ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2013-09-15 11:42   ` René Scharfe
2013-09-15 15:31     ` Stefan Beller
2013-09-17 20:15       ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-29 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] repack: retain the return value of pack-objects Stefan Beller
2013-08-29 20:53 ` [PATCHv7 0/2] Rewriting repack in C Junio C Hamano
2013-08-30  7:17   ` Stefan Beller

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