Ingo Molnar [off-list ref] writes:
And our general experience with the Git libraries in
tools/perf/util/* is: we love them!
For example parse-options.c is a striking improvement compared to
getopt.h we used before, and all the other facilities are sane and
straight to the point as well. So in this sense 'perf' is an ...
interesting cross-discipline 'fork' of Git's generic libraries.
Kudos to Pierre, then.