Re: [RFC PATCHv6 1/2] repack: rewrite the shell script in C

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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

 * people deploying to servers don't have to rewrite the #! line
   or worry about the PATH and quality of installed POSIX
   utilities, if they are only using the built-in part written
   in C

I am not sure what is meant by the latter.  Rewriting #! is part of
any scripted Porcelain done by the top-level Makefile, and I do not
think we have seen any problem reports on it.

As to "quality of ... utilities", I think the real issue some people
in the thread had was not about "deploying to servers" but about
installing in a minimalistic chrooted environment where standard
tools may be lacking.

Thanks for a sanity check.  Yeah, the second item should be about
minimal chroots, not my sloppy guess about some hypothetical bad
operating system with untrustworthy tools.

Jonathan