From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] repack: rewrite the shell script in C Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:04:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1377808774-12505-1-git-send-email-stefanbeller@googlemail.com> <1377808774-12505-2-git-send-email-stefanbeller@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Stefan Beller X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 29 23:05:04 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 1VF9On-00084p-HD for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:05:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756905Ab3H2VE4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:04:56 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com ([209.85.217.169]:37566 "EHLO mail-lb0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756816Ab3H2VE4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:04:56 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f169.google.com with SMTP id z5so506981lbh.0 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:04:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=gqSTm8kpPc4KIkb6q/hBgoiqrC3IVpO1WDKhQyInjr0=; b=v/uozY6D0V5T6l/mpqhm2yzPpjgs6a59Qc9eME0GZLInrCJMAZwjwIILerzB9/mlkc asTY30om0Ie728yxWMIaYRWHnRq4Tf8QEbUzbzuMMPgnVPKKeUSqVAHocNvkixx1xBL2 4HacwakbheCEVTp+q5+Nwrr+1UqHm2zyZ7NrOawxBCxdqjfa4ohdnQHU9n/wQoaCo+K+ t8EZbS0CP/O6V0xmsR8bP+bt6iA3X+K/0Uoi8KX/UcliCR/wX7bOFfOTtiRU0nWDhg5z kChjgq035AvoZTzs6y2hJXldfKc9lx5YSwgwoho1pTWLzlcIPcPoVKiOzEkiu3aUatyj w1JQ== X-Received: by 10.112.64.36 with SMTP id l4mr4751300lbs.15.1377810294779; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:04:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.91.169 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:04:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1377808774-12505-2-git-send-email-stefanbeller@googlemail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Stefan Beller 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