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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 7:34 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20 2021, Taylor Blau wrote:
> > But I don't think we even need to, since we could just rely on Awk. That
> > has all the benefits you described while still avoiding the circular
> > dependency on libgit.a. But the killer feature is that we don't have to
> > rely on two implementations, the lesser-used of which is likely to
> > bitrot over time.
>
> Per Eric's Sunshine's upthread comments an awk and Perl implementation
> were both considered before[1].
> 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cSzKoOzU-zPOZqfNpPYBFpcWqvDP3mwLvAn5WkiNW0UMw@mail.gmail.com/

Thanks for saving me the trouble of digging up that email reference.