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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> wrote:

> If that's what he's doing then why does he state that the git binaries
> are "for your convenience only"--strongly implying his program will work
> in the absence thereof? I'm hoping he just made a typo--as what he said

Not at all; as others have explained, you're reading too much into that.

I believe what he is doing is often called "mere aggregation".
Perfectly legal, IMO.