From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Tapsell Subject: Re: Generalised bisection Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:24:09 +0000 Message-ID: <43d8ce650903110624t47e37b19n3fc72e3243978200@mail.gmail.com> References: <200903100808.15875.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <43d8ce650903110235q5e2a59f6t201d5e65a4937476@mail.gmail.com> <43d8ce650903110508o3d12f32m8202fae750d215a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Ealdwulf Wuffinga , Christian Couder , Git List , Ingo Molnar To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 11 14:25:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LhORM-0005zj-Qy for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:25:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755048AbZCKNYN convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:24:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754987AbZCKNYN (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:24:13 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.28]:15993 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754956AbZCKNYM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:24:12 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so508785ywh.1 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:24:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=oQ5GhOCLkjB2jQIdKbOMpZkn74NY8NF09I1q792jnys=; b=qHcyiO1g5ba8e9TmE7R2VtdRl0QGOpaAgpsjVAWT1CV/npZxjSylS6NNn4zqmS9AKs waIWUFItSATSA6OZsN+Z3rIETq03TQrfQ6l8/h7UfIwUqfWjjHy5jJeGj40hL30cjpSJ +TyO1fyyWcx+ZTnr9ajDcDH0yG2xNJ0GItoAE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FIFwQlfFqkuE7B3HsQwaaKbqFQqlfOmLRrdJRqsOaRvKEIGLWGHmo5nyXtu5ev1cL8 7DJUn1xEnbN4t//M7aNarmgFujpOlN0FyRSge9+pzz9qfwT5+kL+rgwvtduYvqX3zIrk XiIc4rOWrBFUVftssnPSMQ7Ai9F+qE7EyjFlg= Received: by 10.142.193.10 with SMTP id q10mr664151wff.205.1236777849435; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:24:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/3/11 Johannes Schindelin : > Hi, > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote: > >> 2009/3/11 Johannes Schindelin : >> >> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote: >> > >> >> There used to be a dependency on python. =C2=A0git-merge-recursiv= e for >> >> example, before it was converted to C. >> > >> > Not "for example". =C2=A0It was the only dependency of git.git on = Python, >> > and the rewrite of merge-recursive was only done to break that >> > dependency, as I had a platform where I could not install Python. >> >> But installing perl was no problem? =C2=A0(Just curious) > > Perl was installed, albeit in an ancient version, and compiling Perl > modules written in C was out. =C2=A0It just did not work. I wonder if it would then be acceptable to have a python script for this generalised bisect? Since it's not core functionality. Not quite sure how it would fit in though (I'd rather it was called from "git bisect" rather than adding another separate git command) John