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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
>> 
>> I want to avoid extra fork()s and exec()s. They seem to routinely matter
>> in orders of magnitude of speed in tight loops.
>
> Yes. The more I think about it, the less I like the separate binary 
> directory after all. The "git cmd" format is great for high-level 
> commands, but we've always done "git-diff-tree" and "git-rev-list" etc 
> without the "git cmd" indirection.

Extra fork() and exec() problem still exists, but "git cmd"
format have worked with "git diff-tree" and "git rev-list" for
quite some time (since Jun 14th), so you might've always done it
with dash but that is not a requirement.

It looks like that both you and Pasky are not so enthusiastic
about moving thing out of /usr/bin/, so let's keep things the
way they are for 1.0 release and rethink when we do 2.0 (or
whatever comes after 1.0).