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David Kastrup, Wed, Aug 22, 2007 19:17:16 +0200:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > And not making the scripts builtins helps Windows users how,
> > exactly?
> 
> Red herring.  The proposal was not to do nothing, but rather give git
> a dedicated scripting language internal to it.  Two suggestions of
> mine with different advantages were git-busybox and Lua.

Different "disadvantages". How do you do pipes and safe inter-program
argument passing in Lua? Portably?
What do you propose to do about gitbox becoming a dependency for
others, who inevitably start using it (why not? It promised to be
portable enough for Git itself!)

> A third one was once proposed by Linus with some code example:
> starting a scripting language from scratch.

It was all about pipes.