On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 12:11:38PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Emily Shaffer [off-list ref] writes:

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Teach Git how to prompt the user for a good bug report: reproduction
steps, expected behavior, and actual behavior. Later, Git can learn how
to collect some diagnostic information from the repository.

It makes sense, but I do not think of any good reason why this
should be implemented as a builtin.  I'd expect it would probably
need to collect more info on the running environment than otherwise
necessary for the regular Git operation, and perhaps you'd want to
even link with libraries that are not needed for the regular Git
operation to achieve that.

Can you make it a standalone binary instead to avoid bloat of the
main "git" binary?

Sure. This would fix some other issues (needing to link against curl to
get the curl version, which is exactly what you implied). I wasn't
certain which circumstances a standalone binary was preferred, but I
agree with your reasoning here for sure.

 - Emily