From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:13:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <81b0412b0602220835p4c4243edm145ee827eb706121@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0602230000t58a88af6na1aa7e323dc0179d@mail.gmail.com> <7vwtfmihts.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <81b0412b0602230135w472aa6f3v72980f6f63bb355f@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0602230141g46dbfaev6baa5083dee2d42@mail.gmail.com> <43FD84EB.3040704@op5.se> <81b0412b0602230210r3ffe6e2dta5dc86d6516692b9@mail.gmail.com> <43FDB8CC.5000503@op5.se> <81b0412b0602230607n22146a77k36929f0ad9e44d53@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andreas Ericsson , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 23 18:14:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FCK2R-0006mK-0g for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:13:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932071AbWBWRNz (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:13:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751749AbWBWRNz (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:13:55 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62915 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751441AbWBWRNz (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:13:55 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1NHDjDZ003377 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:13:45 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k1NHDhUH004235; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:13:44 -0800 To: Alex Riesen In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0602230607n22146a77k36929f0ad9e44d53@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3 required=5 tests=PATCH_SUBJECT_OSDL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.68__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Alex Riesen wrote: > > Someday we'll have to start dropping features on Windows or restrict them > beyond their usefullness. One thing that would help a bit would be to avoid shell. There are many portable interpreters out there, and I don't mean perl. And writing a small "specialized for git" one isn't even that hard. In fact, most of the shell (and bash) hackery we do now would be unnecessary if we just made a small "git interpreter" that ran "git scripts". The fact that it would also help portability is just an added advantage. Linus