Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g

Jim Radford wrote:

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:14:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

  I think archimport part needs to be split out just like its
  svn/cvs cousins,

I don't agree.  The chance of running git-archimport and not having
arch installed is significantly less likely than the chance of not
noticing that the git-archimport program exists because it was moved
into a separate package that you didn't know you needed to install in
the first place.

How is this different for when svnimport and cvsimport was moved out? I don't think anyone expected people to run those commands by accident without noticing that they fail without the svn || cvs installed underneath.

The main reason I see for splitting cvs and email import out is the
non-standard dependencies, cvsps and perl(Email::Valid).

Define "non-standard". String::ShellQuote isn't installed by default on Fedora Core 3 but is required by git-archimport.

 While for
svn import it's to keep from requiring subversion-perl of everone who
installs git-core.  This dependency is added automatically, so you
cannot easily just ignore it like you can in the arch/tla case.

It's fairly simple to provide a custom find-requires script.

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