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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make "git reset" a builtin. (incomplete)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:15:53 +0100 (BST)
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Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Hi,

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> > Linus wrote:
> >
> > > I'd love for every single shell-script in git core to be written in 
> > > C, so that we can drop the dependency on shell *entirely*.
> > 
> > What about the test suite?
> 
> The test suite is indeed special. But I think that's a "build 
> requiement", and if we require something like shell for *building*, 
> that's different from requiring normal users to have it.

And do not forget that "make install" is not _part_ of "make install".  If 
you do not want to check that all is fine, but trust the other 
suc^Wdevelopers, you can just omit running the tests.

Ciao,
Dscho