Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make gc a builtin.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:23:41PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

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On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 06:06:56PM -0400, James Bowes wrote:

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The following two patches make git-gc a builtin command.

What's the advantage in making git-gc a builtin command?

Portability. Plus, James wanted to get involved in Git development, and 
building in gc really was the shortest path into that.

I'm not sure I understand the portability argument?  All of the
platforms that git currently supports will handle shell scripts,
right?  

Heck, git-commit is still a shell script, and that's a rather, ah,
fundamental command, isn't it? 

						- Ted